en تخصصي Special Review Article <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><span calibri=""><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span new="" roman="" times="">Introduction:</span></span></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span new="" roman="" times=""> Self-knowing and self&ndash;recognizing are the issues which have been studied in psychology, mysticism and religions. From any view which it is regarded, it shows the man&#39;s ability and aptitude in the line of dynamism of individual and the society. With regard to the importance of self-knowing, the main goal of the present research is to study the role of self-knowing for attaining the individual perfection and the formation of ethical society from the view of Attar.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><span calibri=""><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span new="" roman="" times="">Material and Methods:</span></span></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span new="" roman="" times=""> In this essay, descriptive method has been employed and the researchers by studying and reviewing the books and essays about anthropology-religions &ndash; sociology and philosophy have looked for the factors of intuition, appearance and vision in the stories of &quot;<i>Manteq-ol-Tayr</i>&quot;;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><span calibri=""><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span new="" roman="" times="">Conclusion:</span></span></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span new="" roman="" times=""> The main view of Sheikh Farideddin Attar, as one could see in most of his works especially in<i> Mantq&ndash;ol-Tayr</i> is returning man&#39;s attention to himself. Attar in this story explains his self-knowing doctrine to attain an ideal society and then announce his manifest of alliance on the basis of wisdom in the format of a story of birds who plan to find their king=themselves. Any of the birds of<i> Manteq-ol-Tayr</i> is the symbol of people with various thoughts and views. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br> &nbsp;</span></div> Attar, Mysticism, Manteq-ol-Tayr, Self-Knowledge, Ethical Society 18 26 http://ijethics.com/browse.php?a_code=A-10-241-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Ali Darabi ali9darabi@gmail.com 10031947532846003541 10031947532846003541 No Ph.D. Students of Persian Language and Literature, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran Zahra Rafeie zara.rafeie@gmail.com 10031947532846003542 10031947532846003542 Yes Department of Persian Language and Literature, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran Maryam Zibaee Nejad zibaeenejad.m@yahoo.com 10031947532846003543 10031947532846003543 No Department of Persian Language and Literature, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran