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Farid ad-Din Attar

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Farid ad-Din Attar , 1142?-1220?, b. Nishapur, Persia, one of the greatest Sufi mystic poets of Islam. His masterpiece is the Mantiq ut-Tair (The Conference of the Birds), a long allegory of the soul's search for divine truth. His many other works include Tadkhirat al-Awliya, (Biographies of the Saints) which contains biographies of many Sufi mystics. His name also appears as Ferid Eddin Attar and Farid ud-Din Attar. Bibliography: See his Conference of the Birds (tr. 1971), and Muslim Saints and Mystics (tr. 1979). Author not available, FARID AD-DIN ATTAR. , The Columbia... Read more
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Sufism
...Arabi and Ibn al-Farid. Their theoretical...notably those of Shihab ad-Din Suhrawardi (d. 1191), Farid ad-Din Attar , and Jalal ad-Din Rumi , and the subsequent...world include Muin ad-Din Chishti in India and Baha ad-Din Naqshband (d. ... Read more

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