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The Conference of the Birds

Attar's allegory of the birds' journey to find their king, the Simurgh, in Edward FitzGerald's verse rendering.

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Bird-Parliament, tr. Edward FitzGerald
Edward FitzGerald, 1889

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“A Bird's-Eye View of Farid-uddin Attar's Bird-Parliament,” by Edward FitzGerald, in Letters and Literary Remains of Edward FitzGerald, ed. William Aldis Wright, vol. 2 (London: Macmillan, 1889). Public domain. Text read from scans on the Internet Archive (University of Toronto; University of California Libraries). · Source ↗

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