Uzbek author focuses on Persian poet Attar

TEHRAN -- The Uzbek scholar Akmal Saidov has compiled a book on the Persian poet and mystic Attar Neyshaburi (C. 1145-1221).

 

Entitled “The Study of Attar: an Introduction to the Spiritual Treasures of the Great Mystic and Poet Attar”, the book has recently been published by Sharq, a major publishing company in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.

 

The book, which is available in an edition of 1000, has been written in seven chapters. 

 

A chapter of the book is dedicated to the history of Attar studies in Uzbekistan and other countries.

 

Mysticism literature, the philosophical thoughts of Attar on faith in God, nature, society, politics, ethics and law, and Attar in the thoughts of the world’s major Orientalists and literati are among those subjects discussed in the book.

 

The book, which is in Uzbek and Russian, also contains a selection of Attar’s poems.

 

Farid al-Din Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Attar was a strong believer in the principles of Sufism, a form of Islamic mysticism. Attar was born in Neyshabur, a city in northeastern Iran. 

 

He traveled widely throughout Egypt, Turkistan, and India during his youth, eventually returning to live in Neyshabur. Little is known of his life, although it is thought that he may have been a pharmacist.

 

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