Comparative Analysis of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and the Seven Valleys of Mystical Journey in Attar’s Conference of the Birds
Treasury of Persian Language and Literature 2025 Dariush Zolfaghari
This article aims to conduct a comparative analysis of Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and the seven mystical valleys presented in Attar’s Conference of the Birds. Despite the fundamental differences between the two systems—one emerging from modern humanistic psychology and the other rooted in Islamic–Persian mysticism—the step-by-step comparative analysis demonstrates that in both, the...