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Manṭiq al-ṭayr

by Farīd al-Dīn ʻAṭṭār, Raficq Abdulla, Hassan Massoudy

An allegorical poem by twelfth-century Sufi poet Farid Ud-Din Attar in which a gathering of birds embark upon a quest for Simurgh, the lord of creation.

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SufismEarly works to 1800Sufi poetryPersian Sufi poetryTranslations into EnglishTranslations into FrenchPoetryIndo-Iranian LiteratureMiddle EasternGeneral

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