The prolificacy sometimes laid to his charge (QazvД«nД«, op. He reached an age well over seventy (see ForЕ«zДЃnfar, p. In his later years he lived a very retired life ( ElДЃhД«-nДЃma, ed. His placid existence as a pharmacist and a Sufi does not appear to have ever been interrupted by journeys. He could afford to spurn the art of the court eulogist (see idem, Das Meer der Seele: Mensch, Welt und Gott in den Geschichten des FarД«duddД«n КїAб№б№ДЃr, Leiden, 1955, p. Anyway he was fortunate in not depending on his muse for his livelihood. Ritter, вЂњPhilologika X,вЂќ Der Islam 25, 1939, p. He evidently started writing certain books-the Moб№ЈД«bat-nДЃma and the ElДЃhД«-nДЃma-while at work in the pharmacy (2nd introd. While КїAб№б№ДЃrвЂ™s works say little else about his life, they tell us that he practiced the profession of pharmacy and personally attended to a very large number of customers (see especially AsrДЃr-nДЃma, p. The only biographical date which КїAб№б№ДЃr himself mentions in his writings, namely 573/1177 as the year of his completion of the Manб№eq al-б№ayr, is consistent with the foregoing but cannot be taken as conclusive evidence because the verse in question does not appear in all the manuscripts. ForЕ«zДЃnfar calculates that he was born about 540/1145-46 (ibid., pp. He must therefore have been in his prime during the second half of the 6th/12th century. This fits in with КїAwfД«вЂ™s placing of КїAб№б№ДЃr in his chapter on poets of the Saljuq period ( LobДЃb, Tehran, pp. б№¬Е«sД« visited him there at some time, according to ForЕ«zДЃnfarвЂ™s reckoning ( Е arбёҐ-e aбёҐwДЃl, pp. In all these sources КїAб№б№ДЃr is described as a man of NД«ЕЎДЃpЕ«r. The next notice of КїAб№б№ДЃr is in бё¤amdallДЃh MostawfД«вЂ™s TДЃrД«бёµ-e gozД«da, which was completed in 730/1330 (see M. He is mentioned by only two contemporaries, КїAwfД« (d. Reliable information on КїAб№б№ДЃrвЂ™s life is scarce. КїAб№б№ДЃr and FarД«d-al-dД«n were his pen-names. AbД« Bakr EbrДЃhД«m or, according to Ebn al-FowatД«, b. When the group of thirty birds finally reach the dwelling place of the Simorgh, all they find is a lake in which they see their own reflection.Д«esides being one of the most celebrated examples of Persian poetry, this book relies on a clever word play between the words Simorgh - a mysterious bird in Iranian mythology which is a symbol often found in sufi literature, and similar to the phoenix bird - and ' si morgh' - meaning 'thirty birds' in Persian.КїAб№¬б№¬ДЂR, SHAIKH FARДЄD-AL-DДЄN, (ШґЫЊШ® ЩЃШ±ЫЊШЇШ§Щ„ШЇЫЊЩ† Ш№Ш·Щ‘Ш§Ш±) Persian poet, Sufi, theoretician of mysticism, and hagiographer, born ca. The hoopoe leads the birds, each of whom represent a human fault which prevents man from attaining enlightenment. The hoopoe, the wisest of them all, suggests that they should find the legendary Simorgh, a mythical Persian bird roughly equivalent to the western phoenix. In the poem, the birds of the world gather to decide who is to be their king, as they have none. The Selected Sufi Poetry of Farid Ud-Din AttarД«y Farid Al-Din Attar, Sufi Poetry (2003)ДЄttar's Conference of the Birds, is an epic of approximately 4500 lines written in Persian. The Valley of Astonishment and Bewilderment.The Valley of Independence and Detachment.The Seven Valleys of spirituality (conference of the birds)'ДЄttar has described the seven stages of spirituality in the conference of the birds: Little is known of his life although it is thought that he may have been a pharmacist.ДЄsrar-Nama, Mantiq at-Tayr (The Conference of the Birds), Mosibat-Nama, Elahi-Nama, Mokhtar-Nama, Khosrow-Nama and Tadkerat al-Awliya are among Attar's masterpieces.ДЄttar's most famous work ' The Conference of the Birds' is an allegorical poem describing the quest of the birds, which symbolically represent Sufis, for the mythical Simorgh, or Phoenix. He traveled widely throughout Egypt, Turkistan and India during his youth, and eventually returned to live in Neyshabur. 1221), better known by his pen-names Farid ud-Din and Aб№б№ar ('the perfumer'), was a Persian Muslim poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer from Neyshabur who had an immense and lasting influence on Persian poetry and Sufism.ДЄ strong believer in the principles of Sufism, a form of Islamic mysticism, Attar was born in the northeastern Iranian city Neyshabur. Happy Attar Day!: April 14 is National Attar Day in IranДЄbu бё¤amid bin Abu Bakr Ibrahim (c. Photos by Mohsen Bakhsandeh, Islamic Republic News Agency The Tomb of Persian Poet Attar in Neyshabur

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