The Conference of the Birds - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Farid Ud-Din Attar, Afkham Darbandi (Translator), Dick Davis (Translator)Series:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1984-07-03Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140444346ISBN-10:140444343UPC:9780140444346Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:IslamBook Topic:SufiSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC1K54KTKC
The Conference of the Birds
Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism - an esoteric system concerned with the search for truth through God - it describes the consequences of the conference of the birds of the world when they meet to begin the search...
Series: Penguin Classics
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140444346ISBN-10:140444343UPC:9780140444346Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:IslamBook Topic:SufiSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC1K54KTKC
Dick Davis is currently professor of Persian at Ohio State University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His translations from Persian include The Lion and the Throne, Fathers and Sons, Sunset of Empire: Stories from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, Vols. I, II, III.
Dick Davis is currently professor of Persian at Ohio State University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His...
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Farid Ud-Din Attar, Afkham Darbandi (Translator), Dick Davis (Translator)
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