Why read Farid ad-Din ‘Attār’s Memorial of God's Friends?

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In Farid ad-Din 'Att?r's Memorial of God's Friends, readers will explore the sole extant prose work of the great Persian Sufi poet Farid al-Din 'Att?r (d. ca. 1230). Integrating the writings of generations of Sufi scholars and historians, it relates the saga of Islamic spirituality through the lives and sayings…

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1 author picked Farid ad-Din ‘Attār’s Memorial of God's Friends as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Omid Safi

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This is the most complete biography of the lives of Sufi saints, better known in Islam as “friends of God.” So many of them are here, Rabi’a the famous female mystic, Hallaj the martyr, and Bayazid Bistami. There are earlier translations, but those are abridgments that leave out many of the miraculous accounts.

From Omid's list on Rumi’s path of radical love.