Sufi Poet Pens Down a Book

Faridoddin Abu Hamed Mohammad Attar Nishapuri better known by his pen-names Faridoddin and ʿAttar of Nishapur, was a 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. The Conference of the Birds, Book of the Divine, and Memorial of the Saints are among his best known works.