The Conference of the Birds
Original title: Manṭiq al-ṭayr
first published 1933 Intishārāt-i Sukhan, 2004 paperback 440 pages
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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