Iranians honor his memory on this date every year, which has been named as the ‘National Day of Persian Poetry and Literature’. Born on January 2, 1906, in a village near Tabriz City, East Azarbaijan ...
* Originally published on May 26, 2021. Mantiq ut-Tayr, or The Conference of the Birds, is a 12th-century Persian poem telling the story of a group of birds setting out to find God and enlightenment.