The birds who flew beyond time
By: by Anne Baring ; with pictures by Thetis Blacker.
Contributors: Blacker, Thetis, ill.; ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, d. ca. 1230.
Publisher: Barefoot Books; Distributed in the United States by Random House.
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Birds -- Fiction.; Parables.; Sufi poetry, Persian -- Adaptations.
Description: A retelling of the Sufi parable, "The Conference of the Birds," a poem written in the thirteenth century, in which the birds of the Earth face seven invisible monsters in order to save the world.
Notes: Based on Manṭiq al-Ṭayr by Farīd al-Dīn ʻAṭṭār.