Farid ad-Din Attar’s Memorial of God’s Friends: Lives and Sayings of Sufis
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Overview
This volume presents the lives and sayings of some of the most renowned figures in the Islamic Sufi tradition, translated into a contemporary American English from the Persian of the poet Farid ad-Din Attar. This resource is useful for studies of mystical traditions.
For a massive collection including over a hundred and twenty of the volumes in this series, see the Classics of Western Spirituality Bundle (126 vols.).
Key Features
- A clear presentation of classic Islamic spirituality in an accessible form
- Fully integrates and cross references with other resources from your Logos library
- Useful for studies of comparative religion
- Title: Farid ad-Din ‘Attār’s Memorial of God’s Friends: Lives and Sayings of Sufis
- Author: Farid ad-Din Attar
- Series: The Classics of Western Spirituality
- Publisher: Paulist Press
- Print Publication Date: 2009
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Pages: 434
- Era: era:medieval
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Muslim saints › Biography; Sufis › Biography
- ISBNs: 9780809145737, 9780809105182, 0809145731, 0809105187
- Resource ID: LLS:FRDDDNTGDSFRNDS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:44:50Z
About the Author
Farid ad-Din Attar often wrote under the pseudonym, ʿAṭṭār (the perfumer), Abū Ḥamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm (1110–1221) had a profound influence on Persian writing and Sufism. Little is known of his life, save for his writings.