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The Conference of the Birds

Farid al-Din Attar - Author

Afkham Darbandi - Translator

Dick Davis - Translator

Dick Davis - Introduction by

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ISBN 9780140444346 | 240 pages | 03 Jul 1984 | Penguin Classics | 5.07 x 7.79in | 18 - AND UP
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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

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The Conference of the Birds

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