One of the prominent poets and mystics in Persian literature is Farid al-Din Attar Neyshaburi. Professor Foruzanfar says the following about him: (Attar is one of the famous and at the same time unknown men of Persian literature who are neither men of their time nor men of our time, but men of a time and era that may bring about the development of mankind and the elevation of humanity from now on) and...
About Author: Abū Ḥāmid bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm, better known by his pen-names Farīd ud-Dīn and ʿAṭṭār of Nishapur, was an Iranian poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer from Nishapur who had an immense and lasting influence on Persian poetry and Sufism.
فریدالدین ابوحامد محمد عطار نیشابوری مشهور به شیخ عطّار نیشابوری (۱۱۴۶م/۵۴۰ق -۱۲۲۱م/۶۱۸ق) یکی از عارفان و شاعران ایرانی بلندنام ادبیات فارسی در پایان سدهٔ ششم و آغاز سدهٔ هفتم است. او در سال ۵۴۰ هجری برابر با ۱۱۴۶ میلادی در نیشابور زاده شد و در ۶۱۸ هجری به هنگام حملهٔ مغول به قتل رسید.