Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Also Known As Farīd al-Dīn Abū Ḥamīd Muḥammad • Farīd al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ʿAṭṭār
Born 1142? • Nishapur • Iran
Died c.1220 • Nishapur • Iran
Notable Works “Moṣībat-nāma” • “The Conference of the Birds”

Videos

See actors discuss their roles in a play based on a poem by Farīd al-Dīn al-ʿAṭṭār, The Conference of the Birds
See All Videos →
default image
Rūmī
Sufi mystic and poet
default image
Saʿd od-Dīn Maḥmūd Shabestarī
Islamic mystic
default image
Jāmī
Persian poet and scholar
Ferdowsī (lower left corner) with three poets in a garden, miniature from a Persian manuscript, 17th century; in the British Library
Ferdowsī
Persian poet
default image
Omar Khayyam
Persian poet and astronomer
Saʿdī, detail of a 17th-century miniature from a manuscript (1581) of the Gulistān; in the British Library (Royal Asiatic Society loan 5).
Saʿdī
Persian poet
Ḥāfeẓ
Ḥāfeẓ
Persian author
default image
Nāṣer-e Khusraw
Persian author
default image
Anvarī
Persian poet
Nesimi, Seyid Imadeddin
Seyid İmadeddin Nesimi
poet
Khāqānī
Khāqānī
Persian poet
Nezami
Neẓāmī
Persian-language poet
default image
Sanāʾī
Persian poet
default image
Bābā Ṭāher ʿOryān
Persian author
default image
Rūdakī
Persian poet
default image
ʿIrāqī
Persian poet
default image
Ṣāʾib
Persian poet
default image
Daqīqī
Persian poet
Mirza Ghalib
Mirza Ghalib
Indian poet
default image
Mehmed bin Süleyman Fuzuli
Turkish author

Related Quizzes

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
Poetry: First Lines
4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
Famous Poets and Poetic Form