The Book of Mirdad is a mystical parable written by the Lebanese author and mystic Mikha'il Na'ima

Mikha'il Na'ima

Mikha'il Na'ima was a Lebanese author and poet of the New York Pen League.-Biography:...

. It consists of 37 chapters, which oftent describe Na'ima's view of the world. It draws on a variety of philosophies, including that of Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist...

 and Sufi Islam. The author calls for the unity of different people groups in universal love and criticizes materialism and empty religious rituals.