id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
ajiss-1691	Lingwood, Chad G.	The Conference of the Birds: The Selected Sufi Poetry of Farid ud-Din Attar by Raficq Abdulla (Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2003. 93 pages.)	2005.0	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1132	32	42	The most dramatic expression in all of Persian mystical literature of this spiritual journey is the allegorical poem Mantiq al-Tair (best translated as “The Speech of the Birds”) by Farid al-Din `Attar (d. 627/1229), which recounts the initiatory voyage of a group of birds through seven valleys to the palace of the mythical king-bird Simurgh, symbol of the Divine, enthroned atop the cosmic mountain Qaf. Literal translation: Without thinking (bi tafakkur)	cache/ajiss-1691.pdf	txt/ajiss-1691.txt