The conference of the birds
By: Peter Sís
Contributors: ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, d. ca. 1230
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781594203060
Subjects: Sufism; Mysticism; Persian Sufi poetry; Translations into English; Quests (Expeditions); Birds
Description: Presents an illustrated tale of thirty birds and their perilous journey through the seven valleys of Quest, Love, Understanding, Detachment, Unity, Amazement, and Death in a quest to find their true king, the Simorgh.
Notes: Adaptation of the twelfth-century Persian epic poem The Conference of the Birds by Farid Ud-Din Attar.