Research Streams
The Religious Studies Collective hosts a number research streams that relate to team projects that focus on specialist areas of research to do with the study of religion.
The Attar Studies Project is a new research initiative committed to advancing the study of Attar's life and works. Farid ad-Din ‘Aṭṭār of Nishāpur (c. 1145–c. 1221).
‘Aṭṭār was a Persian mystical poet and hagiographer with a Sufi persuasion. He is the author of several major works that are classified as Persian Sufi epic poetry and prose works. He wrote his major works in Persian. He was likely an apothecary by profession. His best known works are Manṭiq uṭ-ṭayr (The Conference of the Birds) and Taẕkirat al-Awliyā’ (Memorial of Saints).
Project lead: Dr Milad Milani (Western Sydney)
Current Projects:
Farid ad-Din ‘Aṭṭār: Book of Affliction (The first complete English translation of the Moṣibatnāmeh).
Paulist Press
Milad Milani (Western), Ashkan Bahrani (AUI), Kenneth Avery.