The Conference of the Birds: The Selected Sufi Poetry of Farid Ud-Din Attar - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Interlink BooksISBN-13:9781566569354ISBN-10:1566569354UPC:9781566569354Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, Middle EasternBook Topic:ReligiousSize:8.20 x 6.60 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCKDTRV6BC
A RICHLY-ILLUSTRATED MYSTICAL CLASSIC . NEW IN PAPERBACK. The Conference of the Birds is a twelfth-century Sufi allegorical poem. The story of the quest for a king undertaken by the birds of the world, it also describes the Sufi (or mystical Islamic) path to enlightenment. Though hugely popular and influential in the Islamic world, the poem is still relatively unfamiliar in the West. In this edition, the poet Raficq Abdulla has reinterpreted key extracts to make the wisdom of Sufism accessible to the contemporary reader. Combining amusing anecdotes and satire with passages of great mystical beauty, the poem uses the birds' journey to describe the stages of spiritual experience. This edition is richly illustrated with illuminations from Persian manuscripts.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Interlink BooksISBN-13:9781566569354ISBN-10:1566569354UPC:9781566569354Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, Middle EasternBook Topic:ReligiousSize:8.20 x 6.60 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCKDTRV6BC
Attar, Farid Ud-Din: - Raficq Abdulla is a South African born Muslim. He has written and presented numerous radio programs about Islam for the BBC, including a series of talks on the Prophet Muhammad and the Four Caliphs, and programs on the life and work of Jalaluddin Rumi. He has written award-winning screenplays for Channel 4 in Britain, poetry and articles for a range of journals, and he is a frequent book reviewer. Raficq Abdulla describes himself as a secular Muslim and a lover of the arts, particularly music and poetry. He is the author of Words of Paradise, a collection of new interpretations of poems by Rumi and has gained popularity as an accomplished public speaker and performer of his own poetry.
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