After Farid al-Din Attār of Nishāpur, as this study assumes, there were some other persons who claimed to be Attār. Claiming that they have written Attār’s works, these fake Attārs attribute their own products to the poet of Mantiq al-Tayr. When reading the introduction of these fake works, the readers may assume that their poets have been born before the real Attār. Examining this unusual phen...
