ماهية الأخذ الأدبي و ضروبه عند ابن رشيق المسيلي

Abstract EN

This research paper aims at revealing the nature of literary thefts for Ibn Rachiq (390-456 AH), who attached great importance to it in his writings, where he singled out from this serious matter that has always occupied the minds of early Arab critics.

He could successfully analyse the different sides of any literary work and could reveal the reasons behind the similarity of ideas in the works of creative writers.

From this vein, he could follow the roots and the originality of every single idea in order to figure out who is to be blamed and punished, and for whom regards and estimation must return.

He concluded that theft is a very broad subject, which no poet can escape from, and that the real thief is the one who lives on the art of others without creativity or innovation, considering that literary theft is only in the wonderful inventor who did not participate in it