“How can an ant’s eye be lifted to the Pleiades?” 15th century illustrations of the mystical poem Mantiq al-tair, Language of the Birds, written by the twelfth-century Iranian, Farid al-Din ‘Attar.


“How can an ant’s eye be lifted to the Pleiades?” 15th century illustrations of the mystical poem Mantiq al-tair, Language of the Birds, written by the twelfth-century Iranian, Farid al-Din ‘Attar.