Iranian cultural office in Rome has held a literary meeting on the eminent mystic Persian poet of 13th-century Farid al-Din Attar Neishabouri.
Former Italian cultural attach� in Tehran Felicetta Ferraro, Professor Daniela Meneghini of the Ca� Foscari University of Venice along with a number of Iranian and Italian scholars and students attended the gathering. �Attar presented his poems with plain and simple words through an impressive pastoral style,� Meneghini said during the meeting while adding that �nearly one thousand verses of Attar�s poems have been translated and reviewed at the Ca� Foscari University of Venice.� Attar (1145-1221CE) was a great Persian mystic, poet, and a master of narrative though he was not discovered until the 15th century. Born in Neishabour, Attar was a poet of the Seljuk dynasty and his works were mostly inspired by Mowlavi and other mystic Iranian poets. Mantiq al-Tayr,�Mokhtar-Nama,�Mosibat-Nama�and�Elahi-Namaare among his better-known works. Mantiq al-Tayr�is known as an incontestable masterpiece in Persian literature and has been translated into many languages. By Press TV � The Iran Project is not responsible for the content of quoted articles.