The Conference of the Birds, known in Persian as Mantiq-ut-Tayr, is an allegorical poem by the Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar of Nishapur, composed in Classical Persian in rhyming couplets around 1177. Its title draws on a Quranic verse about Solomon being taught the speech of birds, and the poem follows a company of birds, led by a hoopoe, on a journey through seven symbolic valleys in search of the mythical Simorgh, a quest that stands for the soul's progress toward enlightenment. Blending storytelling with mystical teaching, it is considered one of the masterpieces of Persian Sufi literature and remains widely read as an introduction to Sufi thought.
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The Conference of the Birds or Speech of the Birds (Arabic: منطق الطير, Manṭiq-uṭ-Ṭayr, also known as مقامات الطیور Maqāmāt-uṭ-Ṭuyūr; 1177) is a Persian poem, in the mathnawi form, by Iranian Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar, commonly known as Attar of Nishapur.
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