The 30th session on Attar Neyshbouri will be held on Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at Book City Cultural Complex.

IBNA: According to the information center of Book City Cultural Complex, Attar’s view to the world and his philosophical status will be discussed in the session arranged to be held in the presence of Prof. Asqar Dadbeh as its keynote speaker.

The session is being held in line with a series of specialized sessions held on Attar with speeches by experts on his works and thinking.

Abū Hamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm (1145-1146 - c. 1221) better known by his pen-names Farīd ud-Dīn and ‘Attār ("the perfumer"), was a Persian Muslim poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer from Nīshāpūr who had an abiding influence on Persian poetry and Sufism.

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