Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery(English, Hardcover, al-Musawi Muhsin J.)

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Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery(English, Hardcover, al-Musawi Muhsin J.) is written by al-Musawi Muhsin J. and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 100958457X (ISBN 10) and 9781009584579 (ISBN 13).

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 Ibrahim ?Abd al-Qadir al-Mazini's writing in Egypt and the Iraqi poet Nazik al-Mala?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.