| gptkbp:instanceOf | gptkb:literature gptkb:poetry
 
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                                | gptkbp:allegoryFor | soul's quest for enlightenment 
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                                | gptkbp:author | gptkb:Attar_of_Nishapur 
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                                | gptkbp:centralTo | gptkb:Simurgh 
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                                | gptkbp:contains | gptkb:spirituality parables
 moral lessons
 
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                                | gptkbp:countryOfOrigin | gptkb:Persia 
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                                | gptkbp:depicts | birds seeking Simurgh 
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                                | gptkbp:explores | themes of divine love themes of self-annihilation
 themes of unity
 
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                                | gptkbp:firstPublished | circa 1177 
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                                | gptkbp:form | masnavi 
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                                | gptkbp:genre | Sufi poetry 
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                                | gptkbp:influenced | gptkb:Sufism gptkb:Rumi
 gptkb:Jalal_al-Din_Muhammad_Balkhi
 Sufi allegorical literature
 
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                                | gptkbp:influencedBy | gptkb:Sufism 
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                                | gptkbp:language | gptkb:Persian 
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                                | gptkbp:line | approximately 4500 
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                                | gptkbp:mainCharacter | birds 
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                                | gptkbp:mainTheme | gptkb:spirituality 
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                                | gptkbp:notableAdaptation | gptkb:Jean-Claude_Carrière_(theatre) Peter Brook (theatre)
 Sholeh Wolpé (translation)
 
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                                | gptkbp:notableCharacter | gptkb:Simurgh hoopoe
 thirty birds
 
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                                | gptkbp:notableFor | gptkb:British_Library gptkb:Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art
 gptkb:Topkapi_Palace_Museum
 
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                                | gptkbp:notableVerseForm | mathnawi 
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                                | gptkbp:relatedWork | gptkb:The_Book_of_Divine gptkb:The_Conference_of_the_Birds_(opera)
 
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                                | gptkbp:setting | mythical journey 
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                                | gptkbp:structure | rhyming couplets 
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                                | gptkbp:subject | self-discovery search for God
 
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                                | gptkbp:title | gptkb:Conference_of_the_Birds 
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                                | gptkbp:translatedInto | gptkb:Richard_Burton gptkb:Dick_Davis
 gptkb:Afkham_Darbandi
 gptkb:Edward_FitzGerald
 
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                                | gptkbp:writtenBy | 12th century 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsParent | gptkb:Attar's_The_Conference_of_the_Birds 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsLayer | 6 
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                                | https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label | Mantiq al-Tayr 
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