Long before Ransom Riggs of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children wrote the fifth novel in this collection, also titled The Conference of the Birds, there was another older and unrelated work created.
Attar's work translated
The Conference of the Birds or Speech of the Birds (Persian: منطق الطیر, Manṭiq-uṭ-Ṭayr, also known as مقامات الطیور Maqāmāt-uṭ-Ṭuyūr; 1177) is a Persian poem by Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar, commonly known as Attar of Nishapur.
