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Attar and the Persian Sufi Tradition

by L. Lewisohn

2020-09-03 20:47:05

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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 ... Read more

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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File size9.21 X 6.14 X 0.68 in
Print pages384
PublisherI.B. Tauris
Publication date July 8, 2018
LanguageEnglish
ISBN5a7650a8-58d7-4d34-b4f7-aca7ca82b08b
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