A translation of Farīd al-dīn ʿAṭṭār’s Muṣībat-nāmah which is
also in mes̱nevī form. It is supposed to consist of approximately 8000 couplets, however its longest extant
copy contains only 4930 couplets. While the importance of finding God in one’s own self constitutes the
topic of the frame story, the work includes several allegorical stories. The Ṭarīḳat-nāme is the first mes̱nevī known to have been written during the reign of
Murād II. Show more
