"Shaykh Sanan and the Christian maiden" is a Persian mystical poem written by the Persian Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar. "Sheikh Sanan" is the longest story in the book The Conference of the Birds.
Shaikh Sanan and the Christian maiden, folio from a Safavid-era manuscript of Attar of Nishapur's Conference of the Birds, dated c. 1600
Shaykh San‘an and the Christian maiden, ascribed to Aqa Baqir and Mirza Baba. Created in Iran in the late 18th or early 19th century
Tilework depicting the story of Shaykh Sanan and the Christian maiden. Created by Mirza Abd ol-Razzaq Faghfuri, dated 1936
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The Conference of the Birds or Speech of the Birds is a Persian poem by Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar, commonly known as Attar of Nishapur. The title is taken directly from the Qur’an, 27:16, where Sul
Scene from The Conference of the Birds in a Persian miniature. The hoopoe, center right, instructs the other birds on the Sufi path.
"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al tair MET DT227734
"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al tair MET DT227735
"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al tair MET DT227736