# Looking for a Muslim-friendly printing of Gibran's The Prophet **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 30, 2019, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-muslim-friendly-printing-of-gibrans-the-prophet/831746 "2019-03-30T04:22:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-muslim-friendly-printing-of-gibrans-the-prophet/831746/1 "2019-03-30T04:22:46Z")
It’s for my young Yemeni-American friend, and his wife who was raised in Yemen. Ideally I would like to find a copy in both English and Arabic. (so they can both read it.) I even bought a copy in English for him BUT------- I _ **totally forgot** _ about the drawings in the book! They are really quite inoffensive line drawings, but they _are_ of nudes and he says that wouldn’t fly with her, which I totally understand. I don’t want her to think I’m trying to give her husband porn, I just want them, as young newlyweds, to have access to this beautiful perspective on life. So, is there a copy extant with no pictures? I have looked on both Ebay and Amazon, but I can’t tell for sure. There is an “Arabic version” which appears to be in English and also appears to have different pictures, but when I tried the “look inside” feature, there was still a naked guy. Does anyone know _for sure_ if there’s a text-only version in either language or both? ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-muslim-friendly-printing-of-gibrans-the-prophet/831746/2 "2019-03-30T04:28:46Z")
NEVER MIND! [/emily latella] It’s in the public domain; I found a plain-text version at Project Gutenberg. Yay! ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-muslim-friendly-printing-of-gibrans-the-prophet/831746/3 "2019-03-30T06:14:52Z")
What the hell is “muslim friendly?”:smack: This might surprise you, but as newlyweds they will probably be exposed to a lot of nudity. Live even. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-muslim-friendly-printing-of-gibrans-the-prophet/831746/4 "2019-03-30T09:39:11Z")
yeah but even just plain nudes are well unclean for lack of a better term for most Muslims