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Divan

دیوان عطار (Divan-e Attar)

La asamblea de las aves
byAttar

A collection almost entirely of ghazals (he gathered the quatrains separately) with a few qasidas amounting to less than a seventh of the book, since Attar wrote no panegyrics. The qasidas set out mystical and moral themes in the manner of Sanai; one answers his *Kunuz al-hikma* line by line. The ghazals often look like love and wine songs with a liking for libertine imagery (*qalandariyat*), but express the same spiritual experiences as the masnavis, in usually coherent lines. They are direct forerunners of the ghazal of Rumi and Hafez.

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Authorship note

Authentic: Attar lists it among his works in the prefaces to the *Mukhtar-nama* and the *Khusraw-nama*. With the *Mantiq al-tayr*, it is the work confirmed by Awfi and Tusi: Tusi praised his 'great divan'.

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Persa · فارسی

  • Divan-e Attar

    Bungah-e Tarjome va Nashr-e Ketab, 1967

    Translation: Taqi Tafazzoli (ed.)

    1.ª ed. 1962; antes, ediciones de Said Nafisi (1940, 1956, 1960).

  • Zabur-e parsi: negahi be zendegi va gazalha-ye Attar

    Agah, 1999

    Translation: Mohammad Reza Shafii-Kadkani

    ISBN 9789644161056

    Estudio y antología de los gazales.

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Other works by Attar

Sources

  • Reinert, Bernd. «ʿAṭṭār, Farīd-al-Dīn». Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. III, fasc. 1, pp. 20–25. Publicado el 15-12-1987.

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