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c. 1145 – c. 1221 · Nishapur
Farid ud-Din Attar
Born Nishapur, Iran
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Farid ud-Din Attar was a Persian poet and mystic who lived in the city of Nishapur, in what is now northeastern Iran. His name Attar means "the perfumer," because he worked as an apothecary, mixing medicines and remedies. That daily contact with people and their pains seems to have shaped his gift for reading the human heart.
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- The Conference of the Birds c. 1177
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