The Conference of the Birds voice Andrew McIntosh and Ian Pritchard

Andrew McIntosh and Ian Pritchard

composed this famous work on "pure love" called Ṭawq al-ḥamāmah ("The Ring of the Dove" or "Dove's Neck Ring")

and guitar

a marksman who can peel an egg at fifty yards

The Conference of the Birds voice Andrew McIntosh and Ian PritchardBy Farrid Attar Composed in the twelfth century in north eastern Iran, Farid Attars great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvelous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism a system concerned with the search for truth through God it describes the conference of the birds of the world when they meet to begin their search for their ideal king, the Simorgh bird. On hearing that to find him