Attar (also known as Shaikh Farid-Ud-Din, Attar of Nishapur) was born 1145 in Nishsapur, a city in the northeast region of Iran. His name “Attar” means herbalist and perfume maker and he practiced the profession of pharmacist. Although information about his life and death is opaque and has been mythologized over the intervening centuries, at some point Attar traveled widely and met with many Sufi Masters. Rumi called him “the spirit” and himself “its shadow” and wrote: Attar traveled through al the seven cities love/ While I am only at the bend of the first Alley. Attar lived for over seventy years and died a violent death in the massacre inflicted by the Mongols in 1221.
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