Iran: Detail from a miniature painting of Farid al-Din Attar's 'Conference of the Birds', 15th century.

The Sufi poet Farid al-din Attar’s Conference of the Birds is a frame story whose central figure, a hoopoe, is a kind of spiritual leader for a number of other birds. This miniature is from one of the book’s anecdotes about how the devout Arab Shaykh Sanan falls in love with a Christian maiden from Rum (Byzantium).

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