197).

4 The Maronites accept the infallibility of the Pope. And in contrast to the Latin priests, the Maronite priests may contract marriage legally. However, today more and more the idea of marriage among the clergy is fading away. Historically, it was in 1736 that the Maronite Church joined affiliation with the Roman Church. The precursor is Mar-Maron. See below p. 17.

5 Young, Barbara, This Man From Lebanon, New York: A. Knopf, 1970, p. 144.

6 Otto, Annie Salem, The Parables of Kahlil Gibran, New York: The Citadel Press, 1963, p. 16.

7 Young, Barbara, op. cit., p. 10.

8 ibid, p. 7.

9 PR., p. 13. It is unfortunate that some writers keep on spelling Gibran’s family name differently from the way he himself used to sign in Roman alphabets. For example, to name only two, the French orientalist, Jean Lecerf, spells our author’s name as “Djbran Khalil Djbran”, (Orient, magazine, 3, 1957, pp. 7-14); and the illustrious Harvard professor, Sir Hamilton Gibb refers to him as “Jibran Khalil Jibran,” (Studies on the Civilization of Islam, Boston: Beacon Press, 1968, p. 272). In my opinion these false ortographies are due to the fact that some of his commentators still prefer to write foreign nouns as they sound to their ears, even though their correspondent Roman inscriptions already exist.

10 Miss Young (op. cit., p. 184) and Miss Otto (op. cit., p. 20), commit a grotesque historical error when they call Avicinna, a pre-islamic poet and Ibn-Sinna, a philosopher. Actually, those two names, are of the same person. The former is spelled (improperly) in Latin (it should be Avicenna) and the latter in Arabic. Furthermore, Ibn-Sina (980-1037) lived after Mohammed. He is considered as one of the greatest Moslem philosophers of the medieval eastern group. For a good presentation of his philosophy consult Majid Fakhry, A History of Islamic Philosophy, Columbia University Press, 1970, pp. 147-183.

11 BW., pp. 82-83.

12 Young, Barbara, op.