Title: Kahlil Gibran
Subtitle: The Mystic Vision
Subject Classification:  Religion and Faith, Literature and Literary Criticism, Philosophy  
BIC Classification: HRQM, DSBH, BGL
BISAC Classification: REL047000, LIT004020, BIO007000
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: Nov 2026
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-80866-201-0
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-80866-202-7

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Description

Mysticism is not an occasional flourish in Gibran's writing — it is the organizing center of his entire body of work, in Arabic and English alike, from his angry earliest fiction through The Prophet and beyond. The book argues that Gibran drew on a specific, traceable inheritance (Sufism from his Lebanese upbringing, Christian mysticism from his Maronite faith, Neoplatonism, Theosophy, the Bahá'í Faith, American Transcendentalism, and Nietzsche) and fused them into a single, coherent spiritual vision: the soul as a divine spark exiled in matter, love as the path of purification, and death as homecoming rather than ending. Read this way, the sentimental-seeming "wedding poet" turns out to be a serious, systematic mystical thinker — and the book treats him as one.

Biography

Author(s):  Waleed Faris is a scholar and author writing on Sufism, mystical literature, and Islamic thought, as well as his professional interests in the field of Engineering. His work spans soul purification, spiritual therapy, prophetic leadership, and Said Nursi's pedagogy, alongside editorial leadership of journals.

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