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Columbia Encyclopedia: Farid ad-Din Attar
Farid ad-Din Attar (färēd' äd-dēn ät-tär') , 1142?–1220?, b. Nishapur, Persia, one of the greatest Sufi mystic poets of Islam. His masterpiece is the Mantiq ut-Tair (The Conference of the Birds), a long allegory of the soul's search for divine truth. His many other works include Tadkhirat al-Awliya, (Biographies of the Saints) which contains biographies of many Sufi mystics. His name also appears as Ferid Eddin Attar and Farid ud-Din Attar.

Bibliography

See his Conference of the Birds (tr. 1971), and Muslim Saints and Mystics (tr. 1979).

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Dictionary: At·tar   (ăt'ər, ə-tär') pronunciation, Died c. 1229.
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Persian poet and mystic whose masterpiece, Conference of the Birds, is an allegorical survey of Sufism.


 
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Attar may refer to ʿAṭṭār (Arabic: عطار‎), a common surname in the Muslim or Arab world:

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  • Attar (Planet of the Apes), in Planet of the Apes, a noble ape soldier played by Michael Clarke Duncan
  • Attar, Madhya Pradesh, town in Madhya Pradesh, India
  • Attar of roses, the essential oil extracted from the petals of various types of rose
  • Attar (god), a western Semitic god.
  • Ittar, Attar, or Itr, a natural perfume extracted from the juices of flowers, herbs, spices, and/or barks into a base oil such as Sandalwood oil.

 
 

 

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