Conference of the Birds: A Philosophical Religious Poem in Prose

By Farid Ud-Din Attar
Translated By C.S. Nott

The Conference of the Birds is one of the great works of world literature. In it Farid ud-Din Attar explores the nature of the spiritual path through an allegory of the brave birds that go in search of their king through the peaks of exultation and the valleys of despair that represent the stages of the seeker as he travels towards enlightenment. Attar was the predecessor of the great Persian Sufi poet Jalalludin Rumi, who borrowed Attar's technique of weaving wisdom within entertaining and amusing tales.

ISBN-10: 1879708132

ISBN-13: 978-1879708136
Trade paper, 160 pages