Attar of Nishapur
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Persian Sufi poet
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Abū Ḥāmid bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm , better known by his pen-names Farīd ud-Dīn and ʿAṭṭār of Nishapur , was an Iranian poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer from Nishapur who had an immense and lasting influence on Persian poetry and Sufism. He wrote a collection of lyrical poems and number of long poems in the philosophical tradition of Islamic mysticism, as well as a prose work with biographies and sayings of famous Muslim mystics. The Conference of the Birds, The Book of Divine, and Memorial of the Saints are among his best known works.
