Khalil Gibran (January 6, 1883 April 10, 1931) was a LebaneseAmerican writer, poet, visual artist and Lebanese nationalist.Though born a Maronite, Gibran was influenced not only by his own religion but also by Islam, and especially by the mysticism of the Sufis. His knowledge of Lebanons bloody history, with its destructive factional struggles, strengthened his belief in the fundamental unity of religions, which his parents exemplified by welcoming people of various religions in their home. Connections and parallels have also been made to William Blakes work, as well as the theological ideas of Walt Whitman and in Ralph Waldo Emerson such as reincarnation and the Oversoul. Themes of influence in his work were Islamic/Arabic art, European Classicism (particularly Leonardo Da Vinci) and Romanticism (Blake and Auguste Rodin), the preRaphelite Brotherhood, and more modern symbolism and surrealism.Gibran had a number of strong connections to the Bahai Faith starting around 1912. One of Gibrans acquaintances, Juliet Thompson, reported several anecdotes relating to Gibran. She recalled Gibran had met AbdulBaha, the leader of the religion at the time of his journeys to the West Gibran was unable to sleep the night before meeting him in person to draw his portrait in April 1912 on the island of Manhattan. Gibran later told Thompson that in AbdulBaha he had "seen the Unseen, and been filled". Gibran began work on the book The Prophet, in 1912 when "he got the first motif, for his...

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