The Conference of the Birds - Farid ud-Din Attar All-time Favorite by Jinta Hirayama / ISBN

by Jinta Hirayama / ISBN 9788898030408 / really nice little illustrated 96-page paperback

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the book cover makes an all-important first impression

The distinctive typography and elegant compositions designed by William Joseph “Dard” Hunter (American

The Conference of the Birds - Farid ud-Din Attar All-time Favorite by Jinta Hirayama / ISBNThe Conference of the Birds by Farid ud Din Attar ISBN 9780140444346 240 page paperback from Penguin Classics *** Composed in the twelfth century in north eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism an esoteric system concerned with the search for truth through God it describes the consequences of the conference of the