Synopsis
Table of Contents

PENGUIN CLASSICS CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS

Farid al-Din Attar - Author
Afkham Darbandi - Author
Dick Davis - Translator
Dick Davis - Introduction by
$18.50
Book: Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 240 pages | ISBN 9780140444346 | 29 Mar 2005 | Penguin Classic | 18 - AND UP
PENGUIN CLASSICS CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS
Consisting of a group of stories bound together by a pilgrimage, this great twelfth-century poem is an allegorical rendering of the Way of the Sufi—the secretive and paradoxical form of Islamic mysticism. 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


Send this page to a friend