Farid al-Din Attar's The Conference of the Birds, Mantiq al-Tayr, is a primary foundational Persian Sufi allegorical poem; the atlas records no publisher and no exact publication year because it survives through manuscript transmission from the twelfth century rather than a single dated modern edition. Its strength is that it is the primary source itself, the actual poem rather than a later description of its allegory. Its limit is the ordinary one for citing a classical Persian poem without specifying a translation: this record does not establish which edition underlies a given quotation from it.
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Reliability tier 1: the primary foundational text itself, surviving through manuscript transmission rather than a single dated modern edition, the actual poem rather than a later description of its allegory. NotesFarid al-Din Attar's foundational Persian Sufi allegorical poem.
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AuthorFarid al-Din Attar
Source Typeprimary-text
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This source backs 11 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Esoteric Texts, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Cities, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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