But most of the traits that help provide the multidimensionality of these particular women are those of leadership or intelligence. Unfortunately the same cannot be said for Persian literary pieces such as The Arabian Nights and The Congress of Birds. With these two poems, women are portrayed as multidimensional but in a very negative light. In The Conference of Bird's Sheikh Sam'an is considered a holy man, who spent his life in Mecca. Despite being a devout Suffi, he finds himself in a dream that alters the course of his life and causes him to deviate from his faith. Within this dream he realizes that he is not in the heart of Islam, but in Rome, the center of Christianity. Once he wakes up he has the irresistible desire to go to Rome, where his fortunes will take a turn for the worse. While in Rome, the sheikh meets a beautiful Christian woman who is shown as multidimensional, but in a negative way. The lines: "There sat a Christian girl who knew the secrets of the theology of her faith... In the abode of beauty she like a sun / that never sets..." shows that the sheikh saw a beautiful woman whose beauty was eternal, and he thought because she was Christian, she was hiding secrets because of her religion. (Farid Ud-Din 34,35,38,39). Later the sheikh shows a multidimensional aspect of the woman in the form of cunning and deviousness