{"product_id":"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 Bahá'í 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\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aziloth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47065528664304,"sku":"9781911405351","price":3.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781911405351_p0.jpg?v=1763630435","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781911405351","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}