'Attar and the Persian Sufi Tradition
Subtitle: The Art of Spiritual Flight
Contributors: Leonard Lewisohn (Editor); Christopher Shackle (Editor)
Publisher: Institute for Ismaili Studies
Published: January 9, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781845111489
Subjects: Islam; Indo-Iranian Literature; Sufism; Poetry; Indic, East Indo-European & Dravidian Languages; Middle East; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Middle Eastern; Poetry / Middle Eastern; Islam - Sufi; Criticism and interpretation; d. ca. 1230; °Aòtòtåar, Faråid al-Dåin,
First sentence: Despite Farid al-Din `Attar's fame as one of the greatest Sufi poets of medieval Persia, very little is known for certain about his life.