Talk:Muhammad Asad

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I suspect this article may be a Copyright violation. --Woggly 07:25, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

It definitely is a copyright violation. Looking at the current version, all but the closing sentence is directly lifted from published articles, with only minor changes.

  • Paragraphs 1 to 7 -- taken from source #1 paragraphs 4 to 10
  • Paragraphs 8 to 12 -- taken from source #2 paragraphs 4 to 8
  • Paragraphs 13 to 18 -- taken from source #1 paragraph 11, then 20-25
  • Paragraph 18 ending -- taken from source #3 paragraph 3
  • Paragraph 19 -- taken from source #1 paragraph 26, except last sentence original

where the sources are :

Source #1 : "From Berlin To Mecca, Muhammad Asad's Journey into Islam"
Written by Ismail Ibrahim Nawwab, Additional reporting by Louis Werner
original published in the January/February 2002 issue of "Saudi Aramco World"
(see http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200201/berlin.to.makkah-muhammad.asad.s.journey.into.islam.htm)

Source #2 : "Muhammad Asad Visionary Islamic Scholar" by Hasan Zillur Rahim
original published in the September 1995 issue of "Washington Report on Middle East Affairs", pages 45-46.
http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0995/9509045.htm

Source #3 : "Remembering Muhammad Asad" by staff of IslamiCity, 1/14/2003
http://www.islamicity.com/Articles/articles.asp?ref=IC0301-1826

I'm going to mark this as a copyright violation.

ArglebargleIV 02:04, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

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