This book addresses forgery and plagiarism in Arab manuscripts. It uncovers the reality of some manuscripts with forged titles, authors names, and dates of transcription. Forgery may be performed intentionally or by mistakes committed by transcribers. Also, forgery may originate from transcribers misreading, misuse by paper manufacturers and others.
The book includes five chapters.
First chapter deals with forgery, counterfeit, and plagiarism through the following:
. Definition of forgery, counterfeit, and plagiarism.
. Objectives and importance of the study.
. Previous studies.
. Methodology of the study.
Second chapter addresses causes, motivations, and detection of forgery, counterfeit and plagiarism through the following:
. Types and kinds of counterfeit and forgery.
. Forgery and counterfeit methods.
. Causes and motivations of forgery and counterfeit.
. Factors assisting in the detection of counterfeit.
Third chapter shows the places of forgery and counterfeit in manuscripts through discussing the scientific content and physical features of Arabic transcripts.
Fourth chapter focuses on the perpetrators of the crimes of forgery, counterfeit, and plagiarism. Namely, authors, paper manufacturers, transcribers, recipients, owners, bookbinders, merchants of manuscripts, verifiers, and publishers.
Fifth chapter expounds the issue of literary thefts and plagiarism.
The book offers some recommendations, these are as follow:
. The physical features of Arabic transcripts and their scientific content should be carefully examined before possession, investigation, or indexing.
. Addresses, names of authors, and dates of transcription should be verified.
. Transcripts should be carefully investigated and indexed with scientific, accurate and detailed means.
. The subject of Arabic transcript should be taught in the universities concerned with the heritage.
. Publishing houses should avoid any manipulation with the titles of transcripts and should not publish manuscripts under commercial names.
. Specific controls should be set for the verification and publication of transcripts.
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