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The Conference of the Birds: The Selected Sufi Poetry of Farid Ud-Din Attar

The Conference of the Birds: The Selected Sufi Poetry of Farid Ud-Din Attar

Attar, Farid Ud-Din

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General Poetry

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1566569354
ISBN13: 9781566569354
Publisher: Interlink Books
Published: Mar 1 2013
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.60 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
A RICHLY-ILLUSTRATED MYSTICAL CLASSIC . NEW IN PAPERBACK. The Conference of the Birds is a twelfth-century Sufi allegorical poem. The story of the quest for a king undertaken by the birds of the world, it also describes the Sufi (or mystical Islamic) path to enlightenment. Though hugely popular and influential in the Islamic world, the poem is still relatively unfamiliar in the West. In this edition, the poet Raficq Abdulla has reinterpreted key extracts to make the wisdom of Sufism accessible to the contemporary reader. Combining amusing anecdotes and satire with passages of great mystical beauty, the poem uses the birds' journey to describe the stages of spiritual experience. This edition is richly illustrated with illuminations from Persian manuscripts.

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