Mīkhāʼīl Nuʻaymah Book order (chronological)

A classic of spiritual literature for fans of visionary, metaphysical, and mystical novels such as The Little Prince and The Alchemist Mikhail Naimy, a contemporary of Kahlil Gibran, author of The Prophet, has woven legend, mysticism, philosophy and poetry into a powerful allegorical story that has touched the hearts of millions of readers. This timeless allegorical tale presents the teachings of Mirdad, abbott of a monastery that stands where Noah's Ark came to rest after the Flood. In a series of dialogues with his disciples, Mirdad offers lessons on themes such as love, obedience, borrowing and lending, repentance, old age, and the cycle of life and death. Reissued for a new generation, this prophetic work calls on humankind to prepare for another deluge, greater than Noah's, when Heaven will be revealed on Earth. Includes a new foreword by Andrew Harvey, author of the bestselling A Journey in Ladakh and several other seminal works of spirituality.

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.