Download or read book The Conference of the Birds written by Jean-Claude Carrière and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1982 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Conference of the Birds is one of the great works of world literature. In Farid ud-Din Attar's masterpiece, the nature of the spiritual path is examined through the allegory of thirty brave birds that go in search of their king through the peaks of exultation and valleys of despair that represent the stages of the seeker as he travels toward enlightenment. Attar was the predecessor of the great Persian Sufi poet Jalalludin Rumi, who borrowed Attar's technique of weaving wisdom within entertaining and amusing tales.