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Hujviri's Defense of Authorship and the Plagiarism of His Lost Works in Kashf al-Mahjub

In Kashf al-Mahjub, Ali Hujviri details his defense of explicitly stating the author's name within a manuscript to protect intellectual ownership and secure spiritual reward. He supports this argument by recounting two instances of plagiarism of his own works: first, his poetry collection (Divan), where an individual altered his verses and removed his name; and second, his Sufi treatise Minhaj al-Din, which was claimed by an unqualified pretender. Hujviri asserts that stating the author's name serves both a particular and a general benefit, ensuring that the creator receives prayers and blessings from future readers while preventing intellectual theft by the ignorant.

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