How long does it take to read The Conference of the Birds?
Farid ud-Din Attar, Raficq Abdulla, Hassan Massoudy, Farid Al Din Attar
The Conference of the Birds by Farid ud-Din Attar, Raficq Abdulla, Hassan Massoudy, Farid Al Din Attar takes about 3 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 30 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1933. 191 pages, about 52,525 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 50 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 25 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
An allegorical poem by twelfth-century Sufi poet Farid Ud-Din Attar in which a gathering of birds embark upon a quest for Simurgh, the lord of creation.
Subjects: Sufism, Sufi poetry, Persian Sufi poetry, Poetry, Middle Eastern, Sufi poetry, Persian
