The Conference of the Birds consists of 4600 couplets ... At the age of 78, Attar died a violent death in the massacre that the Mongols inflicted on Nishapur in April 1221. Today, his mausoleum is ...

TEHRAN, Apr. 13 (MNA) – Iranians commemorate the National Day of Attar Nishapuri or Neyshaburi, a 12th-century great Iranian poet whose “The Conference of Birds” is a masterpiece illuminating the ...

Based on the 12th-century poem by Persian poet Farid ud-Din Attar, “The Conference of the Birds” tells the story of a group of birds that have concluded the world is in chaos, and who decide to go on ...