Works of Sufi literature and teaching, including the great poetic allegory of the birds seeking their king and the monumental Meccan Revelations of Ibn Arabi. They set out the path of the Sufi in verse and in prose. Both works have been read, taught and commented upon across the Muslim world, and each shaped later Sufi thought and poetry in its own way. Members placed here so far include Al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya, The Conference of the Birds.
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Al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya (Wikipedia)
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The Meccan Revelations (Arabic: كِتَابُ الفُتُوحَاتِ المَكِّيَّة, romanized: Kitâb Al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya) is the major work of the philosopher and Sufi Ibn Arabi, written between 1203 and 1240.
The Conference of the Birds (Wikipedia)
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The Conference of the Birds or Speech of the Birds (Arabic: منطق الطير, Manṭiq-uṭ-Ṭayr, also known as مقامات الطیور Maqāmāt-uṭ-Ṭuyūr; 1177) is a Persian poem, in the mathnawi form, by Iranian Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar, commonly known as Attar of Nishapur.
Masnavi (Wikipedia)
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The Masnavi is an extensive Persian masnavi (a poetic form) written by Rumi, and one of the most influential works in the history of Sufism.
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