Study and Comparison of Mystical Themes in Poems of Attar Nishapuri and Ibn Farez

Fariduddin Attar of Nishapur is one of the outstanding pinnacles of Islamic mysticism. Ibn Farez, too, is one of the great composers of Sufi poetry in the Arabian literature. Both have addressed the most significant and remarkable mystical themes and concepts in their mentalities and poems. The poetry and thoughts of these two poets have vast similarities in common. Among the shared discussions among these mystical poets are monotheism, love, and so on. Therefore, due to the importance of mystical literature among Islamic nations, the points that is addressed in this paper is that the mystical themes applied in their poetry are extracted out of their poetry and has been analyzed and studied comparatively through the artistic language of Ibn Farez and Attar who belong to two different cultures and languages and nations and era, and then the similar and different aspects of mystical themes of their poetry from two different cultures are revealed