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How do we define plagiarism in literature? In this wide-ranging and innovative study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi examines debates surrounding literary authenticity across Arabic and Islamic culture over seven centuries. Al-Musawi argues that intertextual borrowing was driven by personal desire alongside the competitive economy of the Abbasid Islamic Empire. Here, accusations of plagiarism had wide-ranging consequences, as competition among poets and writers grew fierce, while philologists and critics served as public arbiters over controversies of alleged poetic thefts. Taking in an extensive remit of Arabic sources, from Persian writers to the poets of Andalusia and Morocco, al-Musawi extends his argument all the way to Ibrāhīm ᶜAbd al-Qādir al-Māzinī's writing in Egypt and the Iraqi poet Nāzik al-Malā՚ikah's work in the twentieth century to present 'theft' as a necessary condition of creative production in Arabic literature. As a result, this study sheds light on a vast yet understudied aspect of the Arabic literary tradition, while raising important questions surrounding the rising challenge of artificial intelligence in matters of academic integrity.
Contents
Preface: Inceptions: the battle for words: the underlying economies of desire; 1. Canons, thefts, and palimpsests in the Arabic literary tradition; 2. Thresholds: Dependency and Thievery in the Adab Marketplace; 3. Grounding Arabic literary history and literary theory; 4. A genealogy for poetic property: rights, infringements, and arbitration; 5. Disputed poetic territories: proponents and interlocutors; 6. The waning economies of textual theft: The Andalusian shift; Conclusion: A sense of unending; Appendix A: Adab; Appendix B: The perfect Muwashshah.
