Attar Neishabouri
Iranian Mystic Poet
1119-1230 AD

"Faridodin Mohammad ibn Ibrahim Attar Neishabouri" was born in about 1119 AD in Kadkan, a village near Neishabour and from his early youth he began to study.

While he was busy in his shop, selling medicine, he began to compile his two works, "Elahi-nameh" and "Mosibat-nameh". The collection of 1885 tales in his works indicates his high talent and ability. "Tazkeratol-olia", "Manteqol-teir", "Asrar-nameh" and "Khosro-nameh" are also of his works; his quatrains are famous all over the world.

As other Gnostics, Attar, physician, traveled widely in East, from Mecca to Mesopotamia.

He was killed, during Mongol invasion to Iran, in about 1230 AD.

A Poem of Attar: Bird Parliament

Tomb of Attar Neishabouri
Its first construction was built by the supreme judge Yahya ebn Saed, one of the nobles of Neishabour.

It fell in ruin in Timurid period. Later on, a handsome mausoleum was installed on it by Amir Alishir Navai, the sage minister of Sultan Hossein Baiqara.

It was restored and completed thanks to the efforts of National Monuments Society in 1962.

Its tombstone is made of black headstone, on which verses in Thulth script are carved.