The Conference of the Birds

ISBN-13: 9780140444346 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 240 str.

Farid al-Din Attar

Opis

Mantiq al-tayr (the conference of the birds) is an elaborate allegory with many digressions describing in some 10,000 lines how all the birds (human souls) set out in search of the Simurgh (the godhead). All but 30 die and the survivors realize that they themselves are the Simurgh. This book is particularly important in the mystical Sufi movement.

Recenzje

This felicitous translation is a classic and reaches the widest possible audience. David Azzolina, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Spis treści

The Conference of the Birds - Farid ud-Din Attar Translated with an Introduction by Afkham Darbandi and Dick Davis

Introduction
The Conference of the Birds
Biographical Index

O autorze

Dick Davis is an English-American poet and translator. Before the Islamic Revolution, Davis lived in Iran and taught English at the University of Tehran. Davis is now a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is considered to be one of the world's foremost translators of Persian literature. Dick Davis is an English-American poet and translator. Before the Islamic Revolution, Davis lived in Iran and taught English at the University of Tehran. Davis is now a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is considered to be one of the world's foremost translators of Persian literature.