ANALYSIS "THE POEM OF SHEIKH SANAN" - A FARIDUDDIN ATTOR
Shaikh Fariduddin Attar Nishapuri is undoubtedly one of the finest poets and thinkers of Persian-Tajik classical literature. Fariduddin Attar wrote many works, but among them a special place is occupied by mesnevi "Mantik-ut-Tair" (the Mystery of birds). This mesnevi consists of 4800 beits, and the story (hikoyat) "Poem of Shaikh Sanan" among them is one of the largest in volume stories, where Attor and in this story details his mystical concepts (nazariyai irfonӣ). In this story, a Christian girl (representative of the Christian religion) and murida Sam Shaikh Sanan enter in the form of Murshid (mentor). The article analyzes in detail the plot of the story and the mystical views of Fariduddin Attor in the story of Sheikh Sanan."