"Faridodin Mohammad ibn Ibrahim Attar Neishabouri",Iranian Mystic Poet was born in about 1119 AD in Kadkan, a village near Neishabour.
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 around the world.
As other Gnostic, Attar, physician, traveled widely in East, from Mecca to Mesopotamia.
He was killed, during Mongol invasion to Iran, in about 1230 AD.