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Attar's Lasting Literary Influence
- Fariduddin Attar is a foundational figure in Persian Sufi poetry whose work deeply influenced Rumi and later mystics.
- His Conference of the Birds shaped Persian poetic forms and Sufi expression for centuries.
Legendary Meeting With Rumi
- A famous story claims the young Rumi visited Attar and that Attar recognized Rumi's spiritual power.
- The podcast treats this as likely legendary but underscores Attar's clear intellectual influence on Rumi.
Form Links Qur'an, Persian Verse, And Masnavi
- The Conference of the Birds uses Persian rhyming couplets and borrows an Arabic title from the Qur'an.
- Its form influenced later masterpieces like Rumi's masnavi in structure and meter.