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ʿAṭṭār Nīsābūrī
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ʿAṭṭār Nīsābūrī, Farīd al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad b. Abī Bakr Ibrāhīm b. Isḥāq Kadkanī Nīsābūrī, the well-known mystic and Persian poet of the second half of the 6th/12th century and first half of the 7th/13th; his pen-name was ʿAṭṭār or Farīd (ʿAwfī, 2/337; Dawlatshāh, 187, 192; Mustawfī, 740;…

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Daadbeh, Asghar and Translated by Matthew Melvin-Koushki, “ʿAṭṭār Nīsābūrī”, in: Encyclopaedia Islamica, Editors-in-Chief: Farhad Daftary. Consulted online on 01 June 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1875-9831_isla_COM_0315>
First published online: 2015



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