Dr. Dahesh's Published Works

Unless Otherwise indicated, all works contained herein
are originally written in the Arabic language

    This is Dr. Dahesh's earliest work. It is a collection of prose poems written between the years 1927 and 1933. The central thematic concern of most of these poems is intimations of the immortality of spiritual love. The prose poems are lyrics coined by ideal love and embellished by paradisical descriptions. Whenever we come across plaintive notes of despair or melancholy, we find that hope soon disperses them.
 

2 Volumes, 3 Colors, 149 art plates, size 24 x 17cm, 1980, 412pp. $ 20 a volume
ISBN  0-935359-842  Asrar al-Alihah al Juz‘u al-Awwal
ISBN  0-935359-850  Asrar al-Alihah al Juz’u al-Thani 

      This book is a collection of prose poems written during 1933. It is similar to The secrets of The Gods that it might be considered a continuation and a complement to it. However, the dominant mood in this book is that of separation, reminiscences, surging despair, and love wilting away only to be mixed with feelings of death. Love still remains the author's road journey to a divine sphere where he comprehends the secrets of beauty, true happiness, and the meaning of life.

2 Volumes, 3 colors, 145 art plates, size 24x17 cm, 1980, 452pp. $ 20 a volume
ISBN 0-935359-818  Qytharat al-Alihah al-Juz’u al-Awwal 
ISBN 0-935359-826  Qytharat al-Alihah al-Juz’u al-Thani

     It may be said that it is the "Book of death." The author dedicated this book to death, saying: "To the mighty, overmastering, fusion power... to the unknown Truth from eternity to eternity... to my beloved Death, I dedicate this book." It may also be said that this book is the "Book of life"; for death, according to the author, is but "a gentle lovely awakening awaited eagerly by those who have purified their souls and uplifted their spirits; but it is dreaded by those whose thoughts have become impure and whose vices have increased."
     It is a tragedy whose major theme is an immortal sacred love, its episodes take place on Earth and Heaven, and its protagonist is a youth on his deathbed. But before the youth expires, his spirit ascends to the heavenly gardens where he meets his beloved who greets him with divine songs. Afterwhich death unites them together in an eternal world.
     This book is an "inspired vision of symbolic significance." It is about divine love and divine beauty, the mysteries of immorality, eternity, and eternal bliss. It expresses the longing of the author to behold divine Truth and to merge into it in a pure spiritual world.
     The famous poet, Mutlaq Abd Alkhaleq, rendered this book in verse. Both prose and verse versions were calligraphed by the two famous calligraphers, Muhammad Hussni and Najib Al-Hawawini. We quote one literary critic: "Had Shakespeare returned to life, Britain would not have published a book of his comparable in design to the edition of The Repose of Death."

Hardcover 4 colors, 156 art plates, size 24x17 cm, 1936, 208pp. 
Out of Print

     It is a collection of prose and rhymed poems which Dr. Dahesh had composed during the years 1934 and 1935. It may be defined as the book of "spiritual alienation," as this theme echoes in most of its subjects: the insignificance and transience of earthly life, the revolt against corrupt practices of this world, the author's fleeing city life into nature, and his longing to death, the world of the spirit, the world of knowledge, freedom, and happiness.
     In this book, we find hints to an ordeal experienced by the author which made him lose faith in friendship and left its darkened shadow over some later works.

6 colors, 87 art plates, size 24 x 17 cm, 1984 368pp. $ 35
ISBN 0-935359-710  Al Qalb al-Muhattam

     Which of the ladyloves is more beautiful? The two brothers retired to the altar of "sacred love" where the first brother introduced his beloved and began to sing the praises of her charms; when he finished his rhapsody, the second brother began to describe the beauty of his absent ladylove; then soon follows the happy ending.
     This book is a long prose poem which Dr. Dahesh had composed in his youth (1935). Its central concern is sublime love which transports the soul to paradisical regions. The poem is a dramatic narrative interlaced with mythological descriptions.

Size 17x12.50 cm, 1969, 72pp. $ 7
0-935359-788  Nashid al-Hub

* Translated into French

     The characters are an eccentric youth on Earth and six goddesses on Mount Olympus. The goddesses deliberate on whom should be sent to the youth to bring joy back into his heart. Their choice rests on Venus, the goddess of beauty. She appears to the youth, and a long dialogue between them ensues: she tries to tempt him into the joys of love and its delicious ecstacies before it is too late, but he turns her away saying : "Life has dwindled to an insignificant speck in my eyes... and I have turned wholly to search for the lost Truth". The youth dies but only to reincarnate in the Garden of Paradise where he mehis beloved, Truth, which is incarnated in the body of Venus.
     The book is a long prose poem in the form of dramatic dialogue. The reader finds in it beauty of style and symbolic richness, specially in what concerns the relationship of Truth to Love and Beauty. The poet Halim Dammous found the book to be "not a collection of words and expressions but rather a new inspiration of momentous spiritual significance and a new heavenly window through which the reader can view a new Earth and a new Heaven."
     The book is calligraphed and illustrated with artistic paintings executed by the Lebanese artist, Kaisar Al-Gemayel.

2nd edition, 5 colors, 12 art plates, size 29 x22 cm, 56pp. $ 25
ISBN 0-935359-869  Al-’Ilahatu al-Sitt

     During 1936, Dr. Dahesh recorded on a daily basis a separate thought. At the end of the year, the collections of these reflections constituted this book. 
      The Words of Dr.Dahesh are the mirror of his soul. They capture images of his different moods : his revolt, doubt, sorrow, and longing. The book is also a brief summary of his views on many subjects such as: woman, friendship, books, freedom, injustice, life, death, religion, faith, misery and happiness. These views are rather harsh, but their harshness is tempered with justice.
      The Words of Dr.Dahesh are not theoretical constructions or ideas expressed at leisure times. The reader will find deep profound views which could only have developed as a result of hard and long experiences in life. But how is it possible for a youth hardly twenty-seven years of age to attain such profound ideas that are only to be reflected later in a huge corpus of literary works! Our acquaintance with the life of the author and his philosophy provide us with a possible answer.

2nd edition, hardcover, size 24x17 cm. 1983, 208pp. $ 15
ISBN 0-935359-923  Kalimat al-Duktur Dahesh

     A collection of prose poems composed between 1936 and 1942, echoing a painful experience which the author mentioned in an earlier book, The Broken Heart. This sad experience had created in the poet a longstanding doubt in friendship, women, but it also gave rise to inner sufferings. Moreover, this experience made him lose his faith in pure innocent love hence his harsh judgments on human nature which he saw so corrupt making the devil itself even preferable to man. No wonder the author yearned to death, flew into nature, or addressed the "Goddess of Dreams". However, the dark side of the book is silverlined with poems of sublime love, worshipful supplications , and eulogies of departed close aquaintances. 

Hardcover, 6 colors, 80 art plates, size 24x17 cm, 1984, 336pp. $ 35
ISBN 0-935359-761  Jahim al-Dhikrayat

     This book consists of 200 six-line stanza, which the author had composed in 1942.
     The book is best portrayed by words from the author's introduction: "It is lightning, but from within myself, and verbal thunders in which I tried to explain what I sense and feel concerning different episodes in this lifetime in a brief manner not exceeding a six-line stanza for each topic. All I have written is out of honest conviction and certainty, specially regarding clergymen, justice, money, woman, and so many other concerns related to the life of man on this sickly Earth." 

Size 20x14cm, 1946, 112pp.

     It is a journey by Dr. Dahesh into 52 lower degrees of hell, "the underworld of eternal gloom," or "the kingdom of darkness." The author depicts scenes of the sinners' suffering and quaking horrors. The book, however, does not confine itself to a description of these sinners, but it reveals the reasons for suffering in hell. In fact, two motives actuate his descriptions: a punitive one with the purpose of deterring men from committing evil, and one of compassion with the purpose of offering them guidance.
     Thus, The Inferno of Dr. Dahesh, is not only a literary masterpiece but also a moral one; its purpose is to reveal divine justice: the reward or punishment of man according to his deeds.
     The book consists of 52 rhymed prose poems of four sestets each. Each poem describes an infernal underworld in a lower level of hell. Though the allotment of four sestets only to an infernal underworld is a little short, yet each of these sestets is fraught with an atmosphere of ghastly dread. Accompanying these poems are two expressive illustrations of each infernal world, which add more to the piled-up horrors. Halim Dammous wrote of these poems, saying: "The verses ran like a motion picture of hell in full colors." 

Vol. 1, 2nd Edition, 5 colors, 140 art plates, size 42x32 cm, 1989, 348pp.
ISBN 0-935359-036  Jahim al-Duktur Dahesh 2nd ED

     It is a collection of lyrical prose pieces composed by Dr. Dahesh from the beginning of 1944 until the 27th of August of the same year; for on the 28th of August, vicious attack against the founder of Daheshism by the then President of the Lebanese Republic occured, after which he was imprisoned, stripped of his Lebanese nationality without any due process of law, and further expelled into the Turkish borders.
     These pieces can be listed each under one of five central themes: spiritual love, philosophical contemplation, falsity of worldly life, corruption of human nature, and longing to the world of the Spirit. However, the last prose piece in this collection departs from the above major themes-it is entitled "Farewell to the Year 1944,"and its subject is the persecution of the author, his suffering, and homeless wanderings, as a result of this persecution. it is probable that this last piece accounts for the title of the book. 

Size 22x14cm, 1971, 80pp. $ 6
ISBN 0-935359-575  Nibal wa-Nisal

     It is a collection of prose poems written by Dr. Dahesh in 1943. This collection reveals two contrasting attitudes: tender affections and a rebellious spirit.
The first attitude appears in the lyrical poems of love, spiritual contemplations, as well as love of nature and its enchanting landscapes.
     The other manifests itself in the anger of the author against humanity sunk in the mire of evil, against his enemies who conspired for his persecution, and against hypocritical clergymen and unfaithful women. These commotions are best represented in: "The Punishing Rod" and "Your Earth!" where the reader can hear echoes of the prophets of the Old Testament. The eminent linguist Sheikh Abdullah El-Alaili said in his introduction: "You read here the literature of truthfulness ... It has a power to effect a rebirth in the life of the individual who finds himself reborn into a more sublime nature." 

Size 22x14cm, 1971, 128pp. $ 8
 ISBN 0-935359-516  Awatef wa-Awasef

     Many famous poets, such as Shakespeare, Byron, and Shelley, inspired by the Greek myth of Astarte and Adonis, rendered it in their own style. And so did Doctor Dahesh. Dr. Dahesh 's reshaping of the myth throbs with life in a profusion of imagery, lively dialogues, hymns and eulogies, and in the participation of nature and the gods in the action of the myth.
It could also be said that there is more to the book than aesthetic pleasure, for the author believes that what men call a myth is not fiction, but rather it has a core of truth to it. It is a reality embellished later by imagination.
     The book has been illustrated with art works executed by three different artists: Berjole (for the English version), Baudin (for the French version), and Pavis (for the Arabic version). Marie Hadad, wrote in her comment on this book: "Everything Dr. Dahesh says or writes has profound meaning; while we don't see but the ordinary, there is a divine truth hidden from our limited view and befogged mind." 

4 colors, size 16X12cm, 1943, 132pp.

* Translated into English, French, and German

     The Song of Songs which Solomon the Wise, had chanted 3000 years ago exerted a long lasting influence on world literature. A great number of writers rendered it in their own style. Dr. Dahesh too had extracted from its goldmine the rough precious stone, hewing it down into shape with his pen and embossing it with gem-like descriptions drawn from his own creative imagination.
     As you turn the first few pages of this book, the images of a few words start rolling in rapid succession. The sweet cadence, the incidents of the plot transport you into a divine celestial sphere. The different scenes conjoin to form a musical drama whose characters breathe the air of a heavenly atmosphere. 

2nd ed., harcover, 47 art plates, size 28.50 x21cm, 1986, 144pp.
ISBN 0-935359-184  Das Hohelied (German) $45
ISBN 0-935359-176  Le Cantique des Cantiques (French) $45
ISBN 0-935359-168  The Song of Songs (English) $40
ISBN 0-935359-249  Nashid al-Anshad (Arabic) $40

* Translated into English

     The life of Christ before the age of 30 raised many unanswered questions: How did he spend his childhood and his youth? How long did he stay with his parents in Egypt? Who received them as his guests there? Did he get any education? Did he perform any miracles prior to his miracle at Cana of Galilea? What is the attitude of his family towards him and his message? When did he meet Peter for the first time? Did he reveal any of his teachings before the proclamation of his message? Did the four gospels mention all his teachings or is it that some of them had not been revealed to the world? 
     This inspired book reveals three years of the Nazarene' s life beginning at the age of twelve. 

2nd edition, 5 colors, 7 art plates, size 28,5x21cm, 1991, 88pp. $ 40
1st edition paper back (Arabic) $ 16
ISBN 0-935359-400  Memoirs of Jesus of Nazareth (English) 1st edition HC
ISBN 0-935359-117  Mudhakkirat Yasu‘ al-Nasiry (Arabic) 2nd edition HC

* Translated into French, German, and Spanish

     An unusual novel which Dr. Dahesh had composed in less than 24 hours spread over 12 days (from the third to the fourteenth of January 1946).
The hero, a Dinar (a golden coin), by virtue of its transference from one hand to another roams several countries for almost a century. It wanders into cities, villages, palaces, cottages, monasteries, nightclubs; it travels in the air and dives to the bottom of the seas; it accompanies good and bad people, kings and commons; it listens to animals and witnesses two national liberation movements in India and England as well as two World Wars and later a third World War! Above all, it records its observations with the genius of a spellbinding storyteller and renders its judgments with the wisdom of a philosopher.
     The book is a summary statement of the views of the author regarding society and its corruption, clergymen, politics, human rights, courts of justice, money, love, psychology of wars, art and literature. Underlying his harsh critical attitude is the author's deep desire for reform. 

2nd edition, Hardcover, 4 colors, 124 art plates, size 24x17cm, 1986, 464pp.
ISBN 0-935359-192  Memorias de un Dinar (Spanish) $35
ISBN 0-935359-206  Memoiren eines Dinar (German) $35
ISBN 0-935359-01X  Mudhakkirat Dinar (Arabic) $30
ISBN 0-935359-028  Mémoires d’un Dinar (French) $35

     Dr. Dahesh is probably the first writer who rendered in his own style the Lamentations of Jeremiah in the city of Jerusalem after its ruin in the sixth century and the diaspora of its people. His version of the Lamentations stands out for its smoothly running expressions, and profusion of novel imagery which leave a deep impression. No doubt, the comparison between the old and new lamentations is an interesting topic for study.
     The question remains: why did Dr. Dahesh recast these Lamentations? One wonders whether he wanted to stress divine justice which he believes in and preaches, or perhaps he had a further purpose—one related to the country which persecuted him.

Hardcover, 6 colors, 9 art plates, size 16.50 x 12 cm , 1983, 120pp. $15
ISBN 0-935359-77x  Naqus al-Ahzan aw Marathy ’Irmiya

     Diogenes searched so long but never found the True Man, but Dr. Dahesh found him at last, a man who combined in his character the rare qualities of a noble soul, generosity, loyalty, humbleness, kindness, compassion towards the destitute, wide learning, and unshakable faith. He is the dermatologist, Dr. Georges Khabsa, who embraced Daheshism in 1942 and lived close to its foudner for 28 years, until his demise on November 8, 1969. Dr. Dahesh published this book of eulogies about his faithful follower in which he poured out the sadness of his heart into mournful language saturated with liquid grief and tearful deep melancholy affirming to us that the relationship between the two goes beyond the limits of one lifetime. 

Size 24X17 cm, 1979, 168pp. $10

     Have you ever read about an author who had written a whole book about his hand and its pains? It is a novel subject which perhaps only Dr. Dahesh has tackled.
This book is a collection of lyrical pieces, most of which are rhymed, in which the author expresses over a period of three years the pains of his hand as a result of his delipidating fall in the spring of 1976.
     The extraordinary ability of Dr. Dahesh appears in his "anatomy of the feelings of grief." However, his work is not confined to an analysis of his pain, for he ascribes the painful fall, the continuation of pain, and the lack of any cure at the physicians' hands to the principle of divine justice. Then soon you find him raising his supplications to God, his last refuge, that He may have mercy on him and heal his hand. 

2 colors, size 24x17cm, 1979, 108pp.

     This series, a collection of lyrical pieces written over half a century from l927 to 1976, reflects the author's mixed feelings of sadness and joy, despair and hope, happiness and misery. In this series, the reader encounters creative imagination, true feelings, bold ideas, a bright style, and originality of presentation and thought. 

10 volumes, 4 colors, 14 art plates each volume, size 24x17cm, 1980. (total 1132pp.)

     This series consists of an assortment of prose, and rhymed poems which the author composed between 1976 and 1980. In it, Dr. Dahesh wrote on a wide range of subjects of "philosophical, descriptive, emotional, prayerful, satirical, fictional, and epigrammatic nature."
     The author shares his journey into different worlds with the reader. First, he lets him into his inner world, showing him his feelings of sadness, love, hope, revolt, and his dreams of paradise, his memories—joyful and sad—and his premonitions of death, and longing for being set free. Then he accompanies the reader into the outside world, wiping the cosmetic make up off the face of humanity, thus revealing its misery, corruption, the illusions of earthly fame and pleasures, as well as the impendinq threat of total annihilation. The author then makes a stop with the reader in Lebanon describing the horrors of its war and the operation of divine justice. But sometimes, the author retires with the reader into the heart of nature hoping to find there some of the lost happiness; and at other times, he calls upon the reader to contemplate matters of great human significance. 

10 Vols, 5 colors, 22 art plates each volume, size 24x17cm, 1980-1981 (total 1356pp.)

     Travel is not an accident in the life of Dr. Dahesh. He has travelled wide and far to the Middle and Far East, Russia, North America, and almost to all the African and European countries. He recorded in this series facts of his travels, his observations, and his wide ranged commentaries.
     Dr. Dahesh's travel literature stands out for its fidelity to facts in narration and description, its accuracy in recording the exact time and numbers, its exploration of the natural, cultural, social, and economic aspects of each country he visited, the similarities and differences among nations, pronouncing evaluative judgments of artistic and moral life of individuals or nations. Besides, he punctuates his travels with lyrical pieces inspired by certain events or scenes during his travels.
     Dr Dahesh's Journeys come close to being an autobiography, acquainting the reader with the personality of the author, his attitudes, taste, spiritual philosophy, and the manner of his life, and judgment of human affairs.

Hardcover, 22 volumes, size 24x17cm each, (approx. total 7500pp.)

     Do you like to explore a strange world where the body length of its inhabitants is about a hundred or two hundred meters, but their chests do not exceed three centimeters wide? A bird in this world is larger than a whale in size and more intelligent than humans on Earth. A chicken is the size of three elephants, and houses are built out of chicken bones. Trees are fiery; mountains are of diamonds; rivers flow in the sky. Would you also like to know a little about love and marriage, language, singing, birth and death in such a world? Or do you have a desire to know about its religions, beliefs, laws, its means of travel, types of food and manner of eating them? 
     This book is full of unusual comic imaginings depicting the rich exciting imagination of the author. 

5 colors, 19 art plates, size 24x17cm, 1979, 70pp.

* Vol. 1, Translated into German

     This assortment of short stories confronts the reader with exciting plots, perplexing climaxes, and sudden unexpected denouements. The stories make the reader hold his breath at different junctures in the narrative and stirs in him feelings of wonder, surprise, and awe.
     What is rather remarkable are the author's views conveyed in these short stories: all creatures (human and nonhuman) are free and responsible, subject to the eternal laws of divine justice; man is not the only sentient being, for among animals and plants, there are some that enjoy a greater power of rational perception than man. Also the generic hierarchical stratification on Earth is not a proof of spiritual superiority and sublimity. Moreover, there are other inhabited planets whose civilizations exceed by far those on Earth.

4 vols, size 24x17cm, 1979, 1980, 1983, total 900pp.

     In the summer of 1951, the famous Egyptian writer, Dr. Mohammad Hussein Haykal, an ex-president of the Egyptian Senate House and the then proprietor of the two Egyptian newspapers, The Weekly Politics and The Daily Politics, visited Lebanon. He heard the news of the oppressive persecution campaign mounted against Dr. Dahesh at the hands of the President of the Lebanese Republic, Beshara El-Khoury; so he wrote to the Daheshist poet, Halim Dammous, expressing his desire to assist in defending the cause of a man unjustly persecuted. This letter to the Lebanese poet initiated a correspondence between Dr. Haykal and the founder of Daheshism, who was at that time unjustly stripped of his nationality and living away from public view.
     The letters of Dr. Dahesh mostly reveal the causes of persecution and the so-called "legal" procedures of the thinly veiled conspiracy against him, and his determination to restore his rights. On the other hand, the letters of Dr. Haykal express his view that stripping a man of his nationality is worse than a death sentence by a firing squad. These letters express Dr. Haykal's avowal to stir up Dr. Dahesh's case in the Egyptian press in a manner similar to Voltaire's defense in the famous Calas case.
     This book includes in addition to the correspondence a miscellany of supplementary material related to the case of Dr. Dahesh's persecution- for instance, a letter sent by Dr. Dahesh to the attorney at law, Edward Nun, in which Dr. Dahesh narrates in detail, the incident of the attack against him and his torture at the hands of men of the Lebanese government. There is also a eulogy written by Dr. Dahesh about his mother and another of the martyr Magda Hadad after the eviction of Beshara, El-Khoury from power on September 18, 1952. There is also a petition sent by Marie Hadad to the then new President of the Lebanese Republic asking him to restore to Dr. Dahesh his citizenship. The reader will find as well newspaper articles about Dr. Dahesh's restoration of his citizenship and some letters as published in the press at that time. 

Size 24x17cm, 1981, 244pp.

     It comprises of prayers and spiritual hymns composed at different times in Dr. Dahesh's life. Supplications ranging from confessions of human weakness and conflict of good and evil within him into asking God's mercy and help to crush into dust the earthly desires. Whenever he finds himself triumphant and has power over himself in this regard, he raises to God hymns of praise and thankfulness, asking Him to firm up his faith and vowing to dedicate himself to guiding the world, and appealing to Him for deliverance from this Earth. Then he goes beyond individual prayers into collective prayers, and then into cosmic prayers in which nature, and the orbs of heavenly spheres share in worship.
     In the spiritual hymns, the author addresses the world of the Spirit, the world of eternal purity and effulgent radiance, expressing his burning desire of longing to it. Also he addresses the Lord Christ "the Messenger of God and His sublime Word." 

Hardcover, 6 colors, 12 art plates, size 24x17cm, 1983, 216pp. 

     As the title indicates, this book, is an anthology of Dr. Dahesh's works; more precisely, the selections are chosen from writings extending over a ten year period (1932 to 1942), that is, at the prime of the author's life. It helps the reader understand the author's view of life at that age. The reader will be surprised that the author's view of life at that time is characterized by an insight into the fundemental serious aspects of life and by turning away from life's superficialness. 
     The book has been supplemented with selections composed at a later period of the author's life. It becomes evident that the author's view at later age is not much different from that of his earlier years. 

Size 22x15 cm, 1970, 238pp.

     It is a book of poetry, comprising selections of Dr. Dahesh's verse and prose poems chosen from a great number of his works.
     Poetry in this book is not only what is commonly termed as "rhymed verse" but it is also the mirror of heaving life untrammelled by rules and stultifying standards. Thus you find in this book rhymed poems which employ regular meter, or prose poems which have a varied rhyme scheme. It is the kind of verse which could be remembered long for its sweetness, harmony, repetition of refrains, haunting beauty, and musicality unfettered by regular rhyme. 

Hardcover, 3 colors, 21 art plates, 24x17 cm, 1984, 232pp.

     It is a bouquet of poems selected from the twenty-volume series, The Gardens of the Gods and The Paradises of the Goddesses. This literary bouquet clipped from the "Gardens" and "Paradises" reminds the reader of roses rich with colors and fragrance inviting him into its world.
     The poetic spirit is most evident in this collection of free verse and rhymed poems. Most evident as well is a spontaneity creating a sort of music which is the music of the soul of the poet that is sensitized to each and every aspect of beauty. 

Hardcover edition, 3 colors, 12 art plates, size 24x17cm, 1984, 272pp.

     Most of Dr. Dahesh's books which may be classified as emotive literature carry pieces which have such dominant motifs as the insignificance of worldly life, the ephemeral nature of its hopes, the falsity of its glories, the corruption of men and their consequent misery, praise and love of death and yearning to it, longing for the world of the Spirit and hope for deliverance from material bondage, and happiness in the eternal paradisical gardens. 
     The author collected these pieces in this book which he entitled My Songs. The title signifies the heart-deep attachment of these pieces to his soul.
     This book is different from other books in the same literary category, but so are the purposes of the author. It is the most keen expression of the author's spiritual alienation in this world. 

Hardcover edition, 3 colors, 9 art plates, size 24x17cm, 1984, 264pp.

     Dr. Dahesh has been unique in his desire of transposing his literary legacy into verse. He entrusted with this task many poets, among them: Mutlaq Abd-Al-Khaleq, who rendered into poetry The Repose of Death, Sheikh Abdullah El-Alayli, the versifier of the first volume of The Inferno of Dr. Dahesh, and Salah Al-Asir, the versifier of Astarte and Adonis.
     In this book, Dr. Dahesh rephrases most of what he has written until the beginning of the year 1950 into octave-rhymed stanzas; then the poet Halim Dammous "being aware," as he says, "of the impact of these inspired words and of the origin of these heart-deep feelings," transposes them from rhymed prose into rhymed verse.
In the verse version, the reader finds an almost total faithfulness to the original rhymed prose and at the same time an easy flow of rhythm. 

3 volumes, hardcover edition, 3 colors, 8 art plates a volume, size 24x17cm, 1983, 824pp in total.

     This book consists of prose and rhymed poems as well as literary critical responses which Dr. Dahesh had set down in the period extending from the beginning of 1945 till the beginning of 1950. These poems share in common with his contemplative and emotive literature some general distinctive characteristics. But there are five major events which cast their dark shadows over the book: three of these have a direct relation to the life of the autbor and the other two are world events. These influences are: the crucifying persecution against the founder of Daheshism, the death of Dr. Dahesh's mother, the martyrdom of the Daheshist Magda Hadad, the second World War leaving all the disasters and destruction in its wake, and then the assasination of Mahatma Gandhi, "the prophet of humanity." However this dark view is counterbalanced with a bright side emanating from poems about love and nature.
     This book also includes critical replies to two authors: the subject of the first reply is love and woman, and the subject of the other is the lack of freedom in Lebanon. 

Hardcover edition, 3 colors, 4 art plates, size 24x17cm, 1991, 132pp.

     On the 27th of January, 1945, The Daheshist Magda Hadad put an end to her life in protest against the government's act of depriving Dr. Dahesh of his freedom and stripping him of his citizenship.
     Dr. Dahesh heard the news of her martrydom, and struck by this immense tragedy he wrote these eulogies that embody his agony at the death of Magda whose faithfulness and loyalty were so rare. These eulogies were written over a period of thirty four years, however, time did not mitigate their ardor. 

Hardcover size 24x17cm, 1991, 145pp.

     This book consists of 366 rhymed six-line stanzas, written by Dr. Dahesh in 1980, one stanza every day.  The title of this book is the best indication of its content: a sharp sword in that it attempts neither to hide anything nor to flatter anyone.  The author lays bare the truth about human life, its miseries, and its futility... He attacks the traitors and tyrants at whose hands he suffered severly.  He also declares his support for truth, justice and virtue in an age where moral values have been seriously shaken.
     Those who are lovers of sheer truth will find the truth in this book without ornamentation or disguise.  In fact, the author is so candid that he gives it the title The Sharp Sword.

Bound Edition, 2 colors, size 21x28.50 cm, 1992, 216pp.