Attar Farid ud-Din

Tazkirat al-Awliya

Biographies of Islamic saints and spiritual masters

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Attar Farid ud-Din

Persian Sufi poet whose allegorical masterwork The Conference of the Birds is one of the great mystical poems of world literature. Attar was a major influence on Rumi and the entire Sufi literary tradition.

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