Attar of Nishapur | |
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 Bust of Attar at his mausoleum | |
| Mystic Poet | |
| Born | c. 1145[1] Nishapur, Seljuk Empire |
| Died | c. 1221 (aged 75–76) Nishapur, Khwarezmian Empire |
| Resting place | Mausoleum of Attar, Nishapur, Iran |
| Venerated in | Traditional Islam, and especially by Sufis[2] |
| Influences | Ferdowsi, Sanai, Khwaja Abdullah Ansari, Mansur Al-Hallaj, Abu-Sa'id Abul-Khayr, Bayazid Bastami |
| Influenced | Rumi, Hafez, Jami, Ali-Shir Nava'i and many other later Sufi Poets |
Tradition or genre | Mystic poetry |
| Major works | Memorial of the Saints The Conference of the Birds |
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Abū Ḥāmid bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm (c. 1145 – c. 1221; Persian: ابوحمید بن ابوبکر ابراهیم), better known by his pen-names Farīd ud-Dīn (فریدالدین) and ʿAṭṭār of Nishapur (عطار نیشاپوری, Attar means apothecary), was an Iranian poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer from Nishapur who had an immense and lasting influence on Persian poetry and Sufism. He wrote a collection of lyrical poems and number of long poems in the philosophical tradition of Islamic mysticism, as well as a prose work with biographies and sayings of famous Muslim mystics.[3] The Conference of the Birds, Book of the Divine, and Memorial of the Saints are among his best known works.
- ^ Encyclopedia Iranica
- ^ Daadbeh, Asghar and Melvin-Koushki, Matthew, “ʿAṭṭār Nīsābūrī”, in: Encyclopaedia Islamica, Editors-in-Chief: Wilferd Madelung and, Farhad Daftary
- ^ Oxford illustrated encyclopedia. Judge, Harry George., Toyne, Anthony. Oxford [England]: Oxford University Press. 1985–1993. p. 25. ISBN 0-19-869129-7. OCLC 11814265.
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