The Islamic Treatises against Imitation (Tašabbuh)
A Bibliographical History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16643274 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yogesh Patel (0000-0002-3772-7217, Lafayette College, corresponding author), Youshaa Patel (Lafayette College) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 5-6 |
| Pages | 597-639 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Arabica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0570-5398 • E-ISSN: 1570-0585 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15700585-12341517 |
| OpenAlex | W2947809765 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
This bibliographical essay documents for the first time the treatises written on the Sunni Islamic doctrine of tašabbuh —the reprehensible imitation of others, especially non-Muslims. Since the formative period of Islam, tašabbuh has played an important role in shaping both Islamic orthodoxy and Muslim inter-religious relations. But due to a focus on the doctrine’s historical origins, existing scholarship has yet to identify the Islamic literary genre that I call “the treatises against imitation,” which was a post-formative development. To fill this scholarly lacuna, this study traces the genre’s historical evolution by creating an archive of available treatises against imitation, pre-modern and modern. Chronologically arranged and periodized, the bibliographical entries include descriptive summaries of each treatise, with references to published and/or manuscript editions and existing scholarship on the text and its author
Aesthetics · Art · Doctrine · Formative assessment · Imitation · Islam · Literature · Orthodoxy · Period (music · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Theology · Classics · Education and Islamic Studies · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.71 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |