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9781566564809 | Interlink Pub Group Inc, January 1, 2003, cover price $19.95
The "Conference of the Birds" is a 12th-century Sufi allegory that has been described as the Islamic "Canterbury Tales". Written by an Iranian Sufi, Farid ud-Din Attar, who was a major influence on the work of Rumi, it is the story of the birds' quest for an ideal king, and an allegory for the Sufi (or mystical Islamic) path to enlightenment. Though hugely popular and influential in the Islamic world, it is still relatively unfamiliar in the West. In this edition, the poet Raficq Abdulla has reinterpreted key extracts to make the insight of Sufism accessible to a contemporary reader. Each page is decorated with illustrations taken from Persian manuscripts in the Oriental collection at the British Library. The poem uses the birds' journey to describe the stages of Sufi enlightenment, and each bird represents a human archetype. At the end of the tale, the birds discover tht what they are seeking is none other than themselves: in Sufism, enlightenment is unity with the Divine, and the way to God is inward, through one's own soul.
Hardcover:
9780711217584, titled "Conference of the Birds" | Abridged edition (Gardners Books, October 17, 2002), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: The "Conference of the Birds" is a 12th-century Sufi allegory that has been described as the Islamic "Canterbury Tales".
9780826450005 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, October 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This 12th century Persian poet's work tells of the journey of the birds to visit King Simorgh.
Paperback:
9788177697247 | Pilgrims Book House, October 15, 2008, cover price $13.95 | also contains The Conference of the Birds
9780140444346 | Penguin Classics, July 1, 1984, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: An allegorical poem about the search of the world's birds for the perfect king illustrates the mystical beliefs of sufism
9780871291066 | Dramatic Pub Co, January 1, 1982, cover price $6.95
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9781578632466 | Red Wheel/Weiser, October 1, 2001, cover price $12.95
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Hardcover:
9780946621699 | Islamic Text Society, June 1, 1999, cover price $97.95
Product Description: Mantiqu't-Tair is one of the masterpieces of Persian literature of which a complete and annotated translation into English is here presented for the first time as The Speech of the Birds. The text revolves around the decision of the birds of the world to seek out a king...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780946621705 | Islamic Text Society, June 1, 1999, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Mantiqu't-Tair is one of the masterpieces of Persian literature of which a complete and annotated translation into English is here presented for the first time as The Speech of the Birds.
Paperback:
9781879708136, titled "Conference of the Birds: A Philosophical Religious Poem in Prose" | Pir Pr Inc, November 1, 1998, cover price $14.00
9780877730316 | Shambhala Pubns, April 1, 1993, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Stories within stories provide an allegory of the soul's search for union with God
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9781569579077 | Shambhala Pubns, January 1, 1994, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A retelling of the Sufi parable, 'The Conference of the Birds,' a poem written in the thirteenth century, in which the birds of the Earth face seven invisible monsters in order to save the world
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9780140192643 | Reissue edition (Arkana, July 1, 1990), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This thought-provoking and amusing selection, taken from Attar's Memorial of the Saints, is an enlightening introduction to the deeds, parables, and mirades of Muslim saints and mystics, and evokes the riches of the interior Sufi world.
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9781567444469 | Kazi Pubns Inc, January 31, 1987, cover price $12.95
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