Mīkhāʼīl Nuʻaymah Knihy

Mikhail Naimy, friend, biographer and contemporary of Gibran - with whom he founded a dynamic movement for the rejuvenation of Arabic literature - is widely published and read in the East. Of his twenty-two volumes it is however The Book of Mirdad which has so far found the warmest and most constant place in the hearts of Western readers. Legend, mysticism, philosophy and poetry have been woven with magic skill into this strange story about the monastery which was once called The Ark.

This masterpiece of spiritual wisdom ranks alongside The Prophet--and is written by a close friend and biographer of Kahlil Gibran. Naimy weaves together mystical insights, practical ethics, poetry, philosophy, and ancient legend to create this work of inexhaustible riches that amply justifies its claims to be the "lighthouse for troubled souls".