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Publication Date: 02 Feb 2010

Yun Ling's quest leads her to The Garden of Evening Mists

The Conference of the Birds new-arrivals-100722 a work of tremendous andComposed in the twelfth century in north eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism an esoteric system concerned with the search for truth through God it describes the consequences of the conference of the birds of the world when they meet to begin the search for their ideal king, the Simorgh bird. On hearing that to