In this video, we explore the famous persian sufi poem "Mantiq al-Tayr" or The Conference of the Birds, written by Fariduddin Attar.

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Sources/Suggested Reading:

'Attar, Fariduddin. "The Conference of the Birds". Translated by Afkham Darbandi & Dick Davis. Penguin Classics. 1984.

"Farid ad-Din 'Attar's Memorial of God's Friends: Lives and sayings of Sufis". Translated by Paul Losensky. Classics of Western Spirituality Series. Paulist Press.


Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:36 'Attar's life
6:32 'Attar's works
8:08 Sufism
9:18 The Conference of the Birds
12:58 The Journey
16:22 Meeting the Simorgh
20:39 Legacy & Conclusions

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