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name: "Attar of Nishapur"
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description: "A 12th-century Persian apothecary whose allegorical poetry became the blueprint for Islamic mysticism — his influence on Rumi alone secured his place, but it's The Conference of the Birds, a poem about thirty birds seeking God, that still gets taught in philosophy seminars eight centuries later."
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birthDate: "1145"
deathDate: "1221-04-26"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Faridoddin Abu Hamed Mohammad worked as an apothecary in Nishapur around 1145, a trade that gave him his pen name Attar. He turned to writing lyrical and long philosophical poems rooted in Sufi mysticism, alongside a prose collection of biographies and sayings of Muslim mystics. The Conference of the Birds and Book of the Divine established him as a theoretician whose allegorical method would shape Persian poetry for generations. His work reached Rumi, who carried the mystical tradition forward. Attar died around 1221, leaving a body of writing that remains central to the study of Sufism.