Attar of Nishapur

Attar of Nishapur was born in Nishapur, in Khorasan, around 1145 or around 1158 depending on the sources. His nickname, which means apothecary or perfumer, comes from the trade he practised in his town. Very little is known of his life, which legend covered over even during his lifetime. A poet and theorist of Sufism, he also gathered in prose the lives and sayings of the great Muslim mystics, and his influence was immense on Rumi as on all the Persian mystical poetry that followed. He died in Nishapur around 1221.

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