Farid ud-Din Attar

FOREWORDAttar's great philosophical religious poem., Mantiq Uttair, ruas composed probably in the second half of the twelfth century A.D. Since then., a new edition has appeared every few years in one or another of the countries of the Near East.The present rendering was undertaken in the first...

The Conference of the Birds {Manteq at-Tair) is the best-known work of Farid ud-Din Attar, a Persian poet who was born at some time during the twelfth century in Neishapour (where Omar Khayyam had also been born), in north-east Iran, and died in the same city early in the thirteenth century. His...