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Attar
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Texts
Conference of the BirdsAttar's Mantiq al-Tayr — complete English translation from Classical Persian. The first free translation made directly from the Persian.The Book of AdviceThe complete Book of Advice by Farid ud-Din Attar — eight hundred and fifty-three couplets of wisdom on the soul, the self, and the way. First freely available English translation from Classical Persian. Good Works Translation.The Book of SecretsAttar's Asrar-nama — The Book of Secrets. 3,297 couplets on the mysteries of creation, the soul, and divine truth. First freely available English translation from Classical Persian. Complete.The Book of the ChosenThe complete Mokhtar-nama — all fifty chapters, 1,679 rubā'ī, the first complete English translation ever published. From divine unity through annihilation, bewilderment, grief, hope, the physical description of the Beloved, wine poetry, rose and dawn symbolism, the dialogue of candle and moth, to the sealing of the book. Attar's entire mystical quatrain collection, translated from Classical Persian.The Declaration of GuidanceFirst English translation of the Bayan al-Irshad — a Classical Persian Sufi manual in 1,349 couplets on the path from theology to self-knowledge to practice, attributed to Attar of Nishapur.The Delight of the BelovedFirst English translation of Attar's Nuzhat al-Ahbab — an allegorical love poem between the Nightingale and the Rose, with the Morning Breeze as messenger and the Gardener as Death.The Display of WondersAttar's Mazhar al-Ajaib — The Display of Wonders. 1,050 couplets of mystical autobiography, Imamist theology, and narrative allegory. First English translation from Classical Persian.The Headless BookAttar's Bisar-nama — The Headless Book. 214 couplets on ego-death and divine union. First freely available English translation from Classical Persian.The Nightingale BookAttar's Bolbol-nama — The Nightingale Book. 597 couplets on love, truth, and the soul's journey to wisdom. First freely available English translation from Classical Persian.The Thirty ChaptersFirst English translation of Attar's Si Fasl — a Classical Persian poem in which an old sage poses thirty questions about God, love, poverty, prophecy, and the hidden light, and the poet answers them all.