persons ʿAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn Muḥammad

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Name ʿAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn Muḥammad
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  • name in Arabic script: فريد الدين محمد عطار
  • ID 450
    Gender None
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  • manually created entity
  • Uri(s) https://nomansland.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/entity/450/

    Relations

    Place

    Start End Other relation type Related Place
    lived in Nayshābūr
    killed in Nayshābūr

    Work

    Start End Other relation type Related Work
    author of Miftāḥ al-Futūḥ
    author of Muṣībat Nāma
    author of Manṭiq al-Ṭayr
    author of Ghazalīyāt ʿAṭṭār
    author of Asrār Nāma
    author of Ushtur Nāma
    author of Tadhkirat al-Awliyāʾ
    author of Majmūʿa
    author of Ilāhī nāmah
    author of Mukhtār nāmah

    Label

    Label Start End Label type ISO Code
    فريد الدين محمد عطار name in Arabic script per

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    Bionote

    Abū Ḥāmid Farīd al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Abī Bakr Ibrāhīm ʿAṭṭār, also known as ʿAṭṭār Nīshāpūrī, was a writer and poet of the twelfth-to-thirteenth centuries. Contemporary scholars speculate that he was born around 540/1145. He lived in Nishapur as a practicing apothecary, and at some point began composing numerous poetic works. At some point between 612/1215 and 618/1221, he met Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī (d. 672/1274) while at an advanced age. ʿAṭṭār also reports having met with the poet, scholar, and Sufi master Majd al-Dīn Baghdādī (d. 628/1231). Later hagiographers do not count ʿAṭṭār as the member of a formal order, but rather cast him as an Uwaysī Sufi, initiated into Sufism through personal, mysterious association with the Prophet. ʿAṭṭār is said to have been killed during the Mongol general massacre of Nishapur in 618/1221.