Farid ud-Din

Attar of Nishapur, or Abū Ḥamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm, better known by his pen-names Farid ud-Din and 'Attar, was a Persian Muslim poet, theoretician of Sufism, born at Nishapur, 513 a.h. (1119 a.d.), and was put to death 627 a.h. (1229 a.d.), thus having reached the age of 110 years.