Kratki prikaz djela Feriduddina ‘Attara
A brief review of the work by Feriduddin Attar

Summary/Abstract: Sheikh Feriduddin Muhammed ‘Attar from Nishapur is the central author of Persian Gnostic poetry of the second half of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century. Although some features of Gnostic themes may be observed in gazels by Senayi Gaznevi, they will be fully developed in ‘Attar’s poetry whose work represents one of the most important staged of Persian Gnostic poetry development. Due to the lack of relevant historic data, ‘Attar and his life are marked with semi-legend details, which had to be reflected in his literary work as a phenomenon of “spurious ‘Attars”, quasi-poets, who were hidden behind the poetic pseudonym ‘Attar from the distance of two or even three centuries and added their own verses to the authentic ‘Attar’s verses, even though their verses did not fit into ‘Attar’s refined sensibility in any manner whatsoever and had even less contact with his authentic Gnostic doctrine. There were many “spurious ‘Attars” in Persian poetry judging on the number of works attributed to ‘Attar, which amounts to as many as 114, which is equal to the number of surahs in Qur’an, whereby the aim was to give ‘Attar’s personality “an aureola of holiness”.

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