About the author
Khalil Gibran Muhammad (born April 27, 1972) is an American academic. He is the inaugural Professor of African American Studies and Public Affairs at the African American studies department and Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton, where he directs the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project. Prior to 2025, he was the Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the Radcliffe Institute. He is the former director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a Harlem-based branch of the New York Public Library system, a research facility dedicated to the history of the African diaspora. Prior to joining the Schomburg Center in 2010, Muhammad was an associate professor of history at Indiana University Bloomington. == Early life and education == Muhammad grew up in South Side, Chicago, a middle-class community that was predominantly segregated. He attended Kenwood Academy in Hyde Park. He is the son of Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times photographer Ozier Muhammad and Dr. Kimberly Muhammad-Earl, a teacher and administrator at the Chicago Board of Education.
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“Gibran’s prose is undeniably beautiful and historically significant, offering a serene meditation on the human condition. However, readers expecting intricate narrative development or rigorous intellectual argumentation will…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on The Prophet: The Original 1923 Edition With Complete Illustrations (A Classics Kahlil Gibran Novel)
“While beautifully crafted, this work may not suit readers preferring direct, analytical, or dogmatic religious texts. Those seeking concrete instructions or historical rigor might find its allegorical nature too abstract. It is…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on THE PROPHET (Wisehouse Classics Edition)
