His parents were Prince Fahad Al Atrache and Princess Alia. "Famed Moroccan-born Jewish Singer and Farid Al Atrash’s lover Maya Casabianca", Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Prominent Egyptians – Egyptian Government State Information Service", "Farid El Atrash - Music Composer Filmography، photos، Video", "هل الفاء جمعت بين "فريد الأطرش" و"فهد بلان"؟", https://books.google.com/books?id=Sd5g1ohkocAC&pg=PA81&dq=asmahan+Hasbaya#v=onepage&q=asmahan%20Hasbaya&f=false, "Farid El Atrache age, hometown, biography", https://www.aljadid.com/content/remembering-farid-al-atrash-contender-age-giants, https://www.traditionalarabicmusic.com/Contemporary%20Notables/Fareed%20alatrach.htm, "Al Jadid, Vol. She wore a wedding gown designed by The House of Worth in Paris. [citation needed][19] In the last few years of his life, he became physically thinner, and his singing voice became raspy as he is intensified. In 1947 he produced and co-starred in a movie with Samia directed by Henri Barakat; Habib al-'Oumr ("The love of my life," 1947), which became a huge success. [4], Al-Atrash was born in Al-Qurayya,[5] in southern Syria to the Druze princely al-Atrash family who fought the French colonial army. He obviously had no motive for sharing his expert knowledge in the manner customary among court panegyrists, whose type of poetry he despised and never practiced. He spent his last years in Lebanon while he made frequent visits to Egypt, Arab countries and Europe. 147-53, "The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds), The Met, Can Literature Save the World? Remembering Farid Elattrache: A Contender in the Age of Giants, by Sami Asmar", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMtgZYuOBlo, "Farid al-Atrash: Google doodle on Syrian-born Egyptian composer, sing…", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu7G5GWzglk, "Building a Man on Stage.

One of her exhibitions was in Cairo in May 1980. [1][2] Having immigrated to Egypt at the age of only nine years old with his mother and siblings, he studied there under numerous respected musicians. Baba Farid remained at this place in meditation for 40 days before proceeding to Pakpattan.

The Farid family name was found in the USA, Canada, and Scotland between 1851 and 1920. Such knowledge is only brought into his works in contexts where the theme of a story touches on a branch of the natural sciences. "Tales of his love affairs were wildly popular during his lifetime and were seemingly merged with the lyrics of his love songs." However, all sources confirm that he was from Nishapur, a major city of medieval Khorasan (now located in the northeast of Iran), and according to `Awfi, he was a poet of the Seljuq period. For three years he went into a deep state of depression after the death of, View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro, Foreign artists who have achieved widespread fame in Egypt. Several musical artists have albums or songs which share the name of his most famous work, Conference of the Birds, as well as the themes of enlightenment contained therein. Official Sites. Farid is a common male name in the Middle East, the Balkans, North Africa, and South East Asia. Farid and his young sister Amal were interested in their mother's love of music, so she encouraged them to sing and taught her son how to play the oud. One of al-Atrash's most unusual and distinguishable traits was his voice. King of the Oud The Sad Singer : Mini Bio (1) Farid Al Atrache was born in Jebel Ed-Druz, Southern Syria in 1915. Farid al-Atrash (Arabic: فريد الأطرش‎; October 19, 1910 – December 26, 1974), also written Farid El-Atrache, was a Syrian-Egyptian composer, singer, virtuoso oud player, and actor. While the mathnawi genre of poetry may use a variety of different metres, Attar adopted a particular meter, that was later imitated by Rumi in his famous Mathnawi-yi Ma’nawi, which then became the mathnawi metre par excellence.

The nature of the other two, entitled Kašf al-Asrār (کشف الاسرار) and Maʿrifat al-Nafs (معرفت النفس), remains unknown.[18]. Some of al-Atrash's well-known movies include Intisar al-Shabab (انتصار الشباب – The Triumph of Youth, 1941), Yom Bila Ghad, Ahd el-Hawa, and Lahn al-Kholoud (لحن الخلود – "Eternal Tune", 1952). Her father, Youssef Zulficar Pasha, was a judge of Turkish origin;[2][3] he was also vice president of the Alexandria Mixed Court of Appeals. Attar's masterful use of symbolism is a key, driving component of the poem. Once again tragedy struck Farid, his sister Asmahane was killed in a car accident and there were rumors that she was involved with the British intelligence.Farid continued to sing and compose until one day he met Samia Gamal, a lovely belly dancer who captured his heart, and together they created a duo starring in several musical films from the late 1940s and the early 1950s. These valleys are as follows:[19][20], Sholeh Wolpé writes, "When the birds hear the description of these valleys, they bow their heads in distress; some even die of fright right then and there. [4] The people he helped in the pharmacy used to confide their troubles in `Attar and this affected him deeply.

Prior to the 1952 military coup d'état against King Farouk I, al-Atrash became friends with Farouk's consort, Queen Nariman, a relationship that continued after the Queen's divorce and the coup that cost Farouk his throne. |  [13][14] He did not seem to want to reveal the secrets of nature. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Farid&oldid=982055329, Articles containing Persian-language text, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Ferid Egan, Commander of the Queen's Knights in the video game, This page was last edited on 5 October 2020, at 22:40. |  Mois (* 2.Juni 1991 in Urus-Martan, Tschetscheno-Inguschische Republik, Sowjetunion; bürgerlich Zelemkhan Arsanov, russisch: Зелимхан Арсанов, genannt „Alim“) ist ein deutschsprachiger Webvideoproduzent und Rapper mit tschetschenischen Wurzeln.

1: 751-755. She died of leukemia on 16 October 1988, aged 67, in Cairo. 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. This was about 22% of all the recorded Farid's in the USA. Yet he was initially overshadowed by his sister's talent and popularity. The starting point is the idea that the body-bound soul's awaited release and return to its source in the other world can be experienced during the present life in mystic union attainable through inward purification. This is particularly remarkable in the case of medicine, which fell well within the scope of his professional expertise as pharmacist. His parents were Prince Fahad Al Atrache and Princess Alia. His singing style was deeply passionate. Judging from `Attar's writings, he approached the available Aristotelian heritage with skepticism and dislike. [Print Photo]. The hoopoe tells the birds that they have to cross seven valleys in order to reach the abode of Simorgh. [14] During the late 1960s, she began painting. [6], Farida and King Farouk first met on a royal trip to London in 1937.

One of his dreams was to compose a song for 'Om Koultoum'. But despite their trepidations, they begin the great journey. Farid Al Atrache was born in Jebel Ed-Druz, Southern Syria in 1915. As a young child, al-Atrash emigrated with his mother and siblings to Egypt, escaping the French occupation. His last movie, Nagham Fi Hayati (نغم في حياتي, Songs in my life) was released after his death. 286 ff, “Persian Poetry, Sufism and Ismailism: The Testimony of Khwajah Qasim Tushtari's Recognizing God.”, quoted in H. Ritter, "Philologika X," pp. [10] According to Annemarie Schimmel, the tendency among Shia authors to include leading mystical poets such as Rumi and Attar among their own ranks, became stronger after the introduction of Twelver Shia as the state religion in the Safavid Empire in 1501. [4] Attar's lyrics express the same ideas that are elaborated in his epics. His works were the inspiration of Rumi and many other mystic poets. [16]. [12] In March 1965, when King Farouk died in Rome, she and her three daughters visited his body at the morgue.

[22], Mukhtār-Nāma (Persian: مختار نامه‎), a wide-ranging collection of quatrains (2088 in number). `Attar is one of the most famous mystic poets of Iran. In the end, the birds learn that they themselves are the Simorgh; the name “Simorgh” in Persian means thirty (si) birds (morgh). Excerpt: "ATTAR, FARID AL-DIN MUHAMMAD B. IBRAHIM.Persian mystical poet. Like many of his other poems, it is in the mathnawi genre of rhyming couplets. 4(22), Retrieved from, Andrio, R. (n.d.).

Daadbeh, Asghar and Melvin-Koushki, Matthew, “ʿAṭṭār Nīsābūrī”, in: Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār, in Encyclopædia Britannica, online edition - accessed December 2012. Attar, Farid ad-Din. In their early youths, Farid and Amal (who later became Asmahane), began to draw the attention of composers and song writers who were amazed by their musical talents and beautiful voices, and eventually the duo were singing at radio stations and in front of wide audiences. She remained unmarried after the divorce.