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Attar's Conference of the Birds

“Until we leave this plain of sin and pride…” Attar’s Conference of the Birds

Writer: Sepehr Ardana

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- “Until we leave this plain of sin and pride…” Attar’s Conference of the Birds
  Farid-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 ...
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