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The Conference of the Birds
Hardcover
Series: The Lightbound Library
Publisher Price: $22.00
Publisher: Solocosmo Press
Published: Jul 30 2026
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Led by the wise hoopoe, the birds of the world set off across seven perilous valleys-Quest, Love, Knowledge, Detachment, Unity, Bewilderment, and Annihilation-in search of the Simurgh, the mysterious king they have never seen. One by one they make their excuses and fall away; and those few who complete the journey find at its end a truth that has made this poem the best-loved allegory of Sufi mysticism.
Farid ud-Din Attar wrote his Conference of the Birds in twelfth-century Persia; this English version is Edward FitzGerald's Bird-Parliament, by the translator of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. This Lightbound Library edition presents it behind an original painting by Jessica von Braun, published by Solocosmo Press.
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