Nothing interesting conceptually, nothing interesting in the revelation, just. I feel bad for ATTAR that his big puzzle coming out party reduces him to this nothing 'adage.' It's just a first-words theme. I'm happy enough to see him, but yikes, on a Monday, that's nuts. program in medieval literature, where I read more Sufi poetry, and *I* barely knew who he was. I took a Mystical & Erotic Poetry class in college (where ATTAR was on the syllabus) and then I went on to a Ph.D. I know damn well most of y'all have no damn idea who ATTAR is. What's really truly weird is that ATTAR (as clued) was not just an answer in a Monday puzzle, but the answer: the revealer itself. Also, 'thought to have coined'? What the hell is that? He coined it or he didn't. I assumed it was from the Bible, so I guess I learned something, but it seems pretty sad to reduce an important Sufi poet's work to this dumb adage. is so trite, so banal, I can't imagine wanting to build a puzzle around it. Manṭiq-uṭ-Ṭayr ( The Conference of the Birds) and Ilāhī-Nāma ( The Book of Divine) and Memorial of the Saints are among his best known works. He wrote a collection of lyrical poems and number of long poems in the philosophical tradition of Islamic mysticism, as well as a prose work with biographies and sayings of famous Muslim mystics.

1221 Persian : ابو حامد بن ابوبکر ابراهیم ), better known by his pen-names Farīd ud-Dīn ( فرید الدین ) and ʿAṭṭār of Nishapur ( عطار نیشاپوری, Attar means apothecary ), was a Persian poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer from Nishapur who had an immense and lasting influence on Persian poetry and Sufism. PASS THE TORCH (52A: Empower a successor, metaphorically)Ībū Ḥamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm (c.SHALL WE DANCE (45A: Invitation to a prospective waltz partner).TOO BAD FOR YOU (27A: Gloating words of mock consolation).THIS ONE'S ON ME (19A: 'Have another round - my treat!').THEME: ATTAR (67A: Sufi poet thought to have coined the adage found at the starts of 19-, 27-, 45- and 52-Across) - the adage is: 'This / Too / Shall / Pass':

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