The Conference of the Birds E-Book

Farid Ud-din Attar

• Herausgeber: GIANLUCA
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

This is a classic sufi text written by the Persian poet Farid Ud-Din Attar. In the poem, the birds of the world gather to decide who is to be their king, as they have none. The hoopoe, the wisest of them all, suggests that they should find the legendary Simorgh, a mythical Persian bird roughly equivalent to the western phoenix. The hoopoe leads the birds, each of whom represent a human fault which prevents man from attaining enlightenment. When the group of thirty birds finally reach the dwelling place of the Simorgh, all they find is a lake in which they see their own reflection. It is the Sufi doctrine that God is not external or separate from the universe, rather is the totality of existence. The thirty birds seeking the Simorgh realise that Simorgh is nothing more than their transcendent totality.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

PART 1. THE PARLIAMENT OF THE BIRDS - The Parliament of The Birds

The Princess and The Dervish

A Miser’s Fate

A Handsome King

Story of Shaykh San‘An

PART 2. ON TO THE CITY OF GOD - “On, To The Bound of The Waste, On, To The City of God”

Sultan Mahmud and The Orphan Lad

A Grave-Digger’s Experience

A Saint’s Dream

A King’s Palace

A Father’s Love

Shaykh Ahmed Guri and Sultan Sanjar

A Faithful Infidel and A Deceitful Crusader

The Magic Cup of Joseph

The Advice of Satan

Sultan Mahmud and Ayaz

PART 3. THROUGH THE SEVEN VALLEYS - The Valley of The Quest

Majnun’s Search of Layla

Mahmud and The Rag-Picker

The Valley of Love

A Love-Sick Nobleman

Majnun’s Stratagem

The Valley of Knowledge

The Man of Stone

The Beloved Who Found Her Lover In The Arms of Morpheus

A Love-Sick Sentinel

Sultan Mahmud and The Fanatic

The Valley of Detachment

An Analogy From Astrology

The Fly and The Bee-Hive

The Valley of Unity

Advice Given To A Shaykh By A Woman

The Valley of Bewilderment and Stupefaction

A Mother’s Grief

The Lost Key

The Valley of Poverty and Annihilation

Nasir-Ud-Din Tusi’s Advice To His Disciple

The Assemblage of Butterflies In Search of The Candle

PART 4. RECEPTION AT THE ROYAL COURT

THE CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS

by

FARID UD-DIN ATTAR

First digital edition 2018 by Gianluca Ruffini

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