Allegorical poem · 1889
Bird Parliament
abridged from the Mantiq al-Tair
Translated by Edward FitzGerald (1889)
An abridged English version of Attar's Sufi allegory in which the birds of the world gather to choose a king, are led by the hoopoe through seven valleys, and the few that survive the journey find that the Simorgh they seek is the mirror of themselves.
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