I am a professional visual conceptual artist (www.inamgallery.com) known around the world for my artwork, who found my “Bridge to the Soul” when I was first exposed to the magnificent Farid al-Din Attar’s epic poem Manṭiq al-Ṭair, The Conference of the Birds.

I was so moved by the intricacies of wisdom and spirituality in the Conference of The Birds that I felt a calling to find the appropriate resources to study it in depth. I discovered a professor of Persian language specializing in Sufi Writings and studied Manṭiq al-Ṭair with her for 6 months. I soaked up each lesson with such depth and passion as if drinking a bottle of fine wine. As the months passed, I realized that nothing had ever had a more profound effect on me than his writings and the underlying mystical concepts in these manuscripts.