The Conference of the Birds comb 000-year-old text at the foundation

000-year-old text at the foundation of modern medicine and biology

"possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override

none more so than in Palestine

For the fourth issue of Renovatio

The Conference of the Birds comb 000-year-old text at the foundationComposed in the twelfth century in north eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvelous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism an esoteric system concerned with the search for truth through God it describes the consequences of the conference of the birds of the world when they meet to begin the search for their ideal king, the Simorgh bird. On hearing that to