Attar and the Persian Sufi Tradition

The Art of Spiritual Flight

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Middle East Religions, Islam, Fiction & Literature, Poetry
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Author: L. Lewisohn, C. Shackle ISBN: 9781786720184
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Publication: November 22, 2006
Imprint: I.B. Tauris Language: English
Author: L. Lewisohn, C. Shackle
ISBN: 9781786720184
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication: November 22, 2006
Imprint: I.B. Tauris
Language: English

Farid al-Din Attar (d. 1221) was the principal Muslim religious poet of the second half of the twelfth century. Best known for his masterpiece Mantiq al-tayr, or The Conference of Birds, his verse is still considered to be the finest example of Sufi love poetry in the Persian language after that of Rumi. Distinguished by their provocative and radical theology of love, many lines of Attar's epics and lyrics are cited independently of their poems as maxims in their own right. These pithy, paradoxical statements are still known by heart and sung by minstrels throughout Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and wherever Persian is spoken or understood, such as in the lands of the Indo-Pakistani Subcontinent.

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Farid al-Din Attar (d. 1221) was the principal Muslim religious poet of the second half of the twelfth century. Best known for his masterpiece Mantiq al-tayr, or The Conference of Birds, his verse is still considered to be the finest example of Sufi love poetry in the Persian language after that of Rumi. Distinguished by their provocative and radical theology of love, many lines of Attar's epics and lyrics are cited independently of their poems as maxims in their own right. These pithy, paradoxical statements are still known by heart and sung by minstrels throughout Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and wherever Persian is spoken or understood, such as in the lands of the Indo-Pakistani Subcontinent.

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