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« literature it came also to symbolise the end of the spiritual journey, as for example, in the epic poem of Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār, Manṭiq al-ṭayr, and the mystical-philosophical treatise of Shihāb al-Dīn Yaḥyā Suhrawardī, Qiṣṣat al-ghurbat al-gharbiyya, in Oeuvres philosophiques et mystiques, ed. H. Corbin (Tehran/Paris, 1952–77), vol. 2. See M. Streck [A. Miguel], ‘Ḳāf ’ in EI2, vol. iv, pp. 400–2. 60 »