{"product_id":"the-madman-khalil-gibran-9781911405351","title":"The Madman: His Parables and Poems (Aziloth Books)","description":"\u003cp\u003e Khalil Gibran was an accomplished Lebanese writer, philosopher and artist - and by all accounts the third most popular poet in history after Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu. Born in 1883 into a disadvantaged Maronite Christian family, his genius propelled him to the level of world renowned author with best-selling works like \u003cem\u003eThe Prophet, The Madman \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Sand and Foam. \u003c\/em\u003eGibran was influenced by his own religion as well as by the mysticism of the Sufis and, in particular, by the Bah '  Faith, a religion that stresses the spiritual unity of all mankind and recognises that we were all created by the same God.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e The Madman\u003c\/em\u003e is the voice of a mystic whose masks, or personae, have been \"stolen\". It is a distillate, in parable form, of the \"true self\" - full of the wonder of God and yet, at times, troubled with sardonic questions about man's spiritual path. The narrator - no doubt Gibran himself - is the impassioned seeker, who expresses himself through the thirty-four parables and poems of \u003cem\u003eThe Madman\u003c\/em\u003e. Its bitter tones and dark spaces are not for the faint-hearted spiritual traveller but it is without doubt an honest and potent expression of a true seeker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Khalil Gibran\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1911405357\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781911405351\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Aziloth Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/29\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 48\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.10d","brand":"Khalil Gibran","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43937435681023,"sku":"9781911405351","price":6.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_5af0d5fb-06f7-4e1f-aefc-fac9bec6be4b.jpg?v=1681430051","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-madman-khalil-gibran-9781911405351","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}