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“Until we leave this plain of sin and pride…” Attar’s Conference of the BirdsFarid-ad-Din Muhammad Attar (1145-1220) is one of the three pillars of Persian Sufi literature. Sana’i Ghaznavi, who for the first time, exerted love poetry to ...