The ceremony will begin at Neyshabur’s Simorgh Cultural Center with a message from the Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Mohammad-Hossein Saffar Harandi.
Experts on Attar, including Maryam Hosseini, Mehrafaq Baibordi, and Mohammadreza Rashed-Mohsel, are to give presentations about Attar on this day.
Attar’s mausoleum will also be adorned with flowers on this day. Attar Day is celebrated every year on April 14 at his mausoleum in Neyshabur, and several conferences and exhibits in his honor are held across the country.
A Poetry night on Attar is also being organized by Neyshabur Municipality and the association of Khorasan Razavi cultural works and luminaries.
In addition, the participants will gather at the tomb of Attar’s father Ebrahim ibn Es’haq Kadkani on April 15.
Asrar-Nama, Mantiq at-Tayr (Conference of the Birds), Mosibat-Nama, Elahi-Nama, Mokhtar-Nama, Khosrow-Nama, and Tadkerat al-Awliya are among Attar’s masterpieces.
Attar’s most famous work “The Conference of the Birds” is an allegorical poem describing the quest of the birds, which symbolically represent Sufis, for the mythical Simorgh, or Phoenix. Finally thirty birds that have survived the journey realize that they and the Simorgh are one, a clever play on the words Simorgh -- a mystical bird in Iranian mythology -- and “si morgh” -- meaning “thirty birds” in Persian.
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