Author
Attar,
Publication Date
1145
Type
Book
Language
Persian
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Phaidra - Univerzitet u Beogradu
Record ID
o-1009
Date
2012-03-15T11:20:02.197Z
Sample Text
Abū Hamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm (1145-6 - c. 1221; Pers: ابو حمید ابن ابوبکر ابراهیم), better known by his pen-names Farīdud-Dīn (فریدالدین) and ‘Attār (عطار - "the perfumer"), was a PersianMuslim poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer from Nīshāpūr who had an abiding influence on Persian poetry and Sufism.Information about Attar's life is rare. He is mentioned by only two of his contemporaries, `Awfi and Tusi. However, all sources confirm that he was from Nishapur, a major city of medieval Khorasan (now located in the northeast of Iran), and according to `Awfi, he was a poet of the Seljuq period. It seems that he was not well known as a poet in his own lifetime, except at his home town, and his greatness as a mystic, a poet, and a master of narrative was not discovered until the 15th century.`Attar was probably the son of a prosperous chemist, receiving an excellent education in various fields. While his works say little else about his life, they tell us that he practiced the profession of pharmacy and personally attended to a very large number of customers. The people he helped in the pharmacy used to confide their troubles in `Attar and this affected him deeply. Eventually, he abandoned his pharmacy store and traveled widely - to Baghdad, Basra, Kufa, Mecca, Medina, Damascus, Khwarizm, Turkistan, and India, meeting with Sufi Shaykhs - and returned promoting Sufi ideas.
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