Talk:Secretum Secretorum
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[edit] Source
A paragraph or two in the "Origins" section is copied verbatim from: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/arabic/physiognomy2.html
which is in the PD covered by
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--Stbalbach 04:25, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
What is the relation between this book and the famous Hanbali Sufi Shaykh, 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani's "Sirr al-Asrar" (the Secret of Secrets?) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.18.210.2 (talk) 00:54, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Plagiarism
This whole article has been copied, in many places word-for-word, from the NIH website listed above... http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/arabic/physiognomy2.html... The whole opening of the article is a word-for-word copy from this website... Just because it is at the NIH does not make it available for stealing... Stevenmitchell (talk) 05:41, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
- I just checked the copyright on the NIH and it is in the public domain but it requests attribution for it as the source ... Stevenmitchell (talk) 05:43, 1 May 2010 (UTC)