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The Conference of the Birds
Attar of Nishapur فریدالدین عطار · c. 1145–c. 1221
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A Persian poem in which the birds of the world, led by the hoopoe, set out to find the Simorgh, their king. Most turn back with excuses, each answered by a story; thirty cross seven valleys and discover that they themselves, si morgh, thirty birds, are what they sought. The frame is simple and the pun profound, and Sufi poets after Attar built on both.