*By turns witty and profound, The Canticle of the Birds transforms deep belief into magnificent poetry *Featuring 207 Persian, Turkish, Afghan and Indo-Pakistani miniatures from the fourteenth to the
The first complete and annotated English translation of the Persian poem by `Attar (1145-1221), an apothecary who became one of the most famous Sufi poets in history, best known for this work. It revo
Mantiqu't-Tair is one of the masterpieces of Persian literature of which a complete and annotated translation into English is here presented for the first time as The Speech of the Birds. The text rev
The acclaimed translation of a magnificent work of Persian poetry—now updated with new materialComposed in the twelfth century in northeastern Iran, Farid Attar’s great mystical poem is among the most
First written in the 12th century, Conference of the Birds is an allegory of extreme measures for extreme times the story of birds seeking a king is the story of all of us seeking God. Like the birds
