Anonymous Works and Their Ascription to Famous Authors: Are They Cases of Mistaken Identity of an Outright Forgery?

The false attribution of anonymous works to famous authors is not unique to Islamic tradition in general and to Ismāʿīlī tradition in particular. Rather it is a very old problem dating back to ancient Greeks. The students of philosophy are familiar with this question as a number of spurious books ci...

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Published in:Arabica
Main Author: Poonawala, Ismail K. 1937- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: Arabica
Further subjects:B al-Qāḍī l-Nuʿmān Minhāǧ al-farāʾiḍ Kitāb al-Yanābīʿ chronology of al-Nuʿmān’s works sources for al-Nuʿmān’s works and their authenticity Kitāb al-Iqtiṣār iḫtilāf uṣūl al-maḏāhib Ismāʿīlī jurisprudence Daʿāʾim al-Islām
B al-Qāḍī l-Nuʿmān Minhāǧ al-farāʾiḍ Kitāb al-Yanābīʿ chronologie des œuvres d’al-Nuʿmān sources et authenticité des œuvres d’al-Nuʿmān Kitāb al-Iqtiṣār iḫtilāf uṣūl al-maḏāhib jurisprudence ismaélienne Daʿāʾim al-Islām
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Summary:The false attribution of anonymous works to famous authors is not unique to Islamic tradition in general and to Ismāʿīlī tradition in particular. Rather it is a very old problem dating back to ancient Greeks. The students of philosophy are familiar with this question as a number of spurious books circulated in the Middle Ages known as “pseudo-Aristotelian” or “pseudo-Ammonius.” However, the scholars have succeeded to disentangle the genuine from the counterfeit by using various critical tools at their disposal. In what follows I have tried to demonstrate that both Minhāǧ al-farāʾiḍ and Kitāb al-Yanābīʿ are falsely ascribed to the famous Ismāʿīlī law giver al-Qāḍī l-Nuʿmān. Any scholar who is fully familiar with the whole corpus of al-Nuʿmān’s works, especially with his numerous works on jurisprudence, would reject Cilardo’s claim to the contrary.
ISSN:1570-0585
Contains:In: Arabica
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700585-12341353