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Farid al-Din Attar

The Conference of the Birds

Farid al-Din Attar - Author
Afkham Darbandi - Translator
Dick Davis - Translator
Dick Davis - Introduction by
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Book: Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 240 pages | ISBN 9780140444346 | 29 Mar 1984 | Penguin Classics
The Conference of the Birds
Consisting of a group of stories bound together by a pilgrimage, this great twelfth-century poem is an allegorical rendering of the Way of the Sufi—the secretive and paradoxical form of Islamic mysticism. The Conference of the Birds - Farid ud-Din Attar

Translated with an Introduction by Afkham Darbandi and Dick Davis

Introduction
The Conference of the Birds

Biographical Index


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