Farïd al-dïn Attar

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also known as Farïd al-dïn Abï Hämid Muhammad ben Ibrahim, Attãr, perfumer

Persian mystic poet

A twelfth-century Persian poet and mystic, author of the 'Conference of the Birds', who was murdered by the soldiers under Tuluy when Nishapur was sacked.

In The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim (Jorge Luis Borges, 1944)