![]() ![]() ![]() Take the following example into consideration: there are two patent applications that have arrived at the patent office in the UK. Otherwise, the argument will be fallacious as it will commit the fallacy of argumentum ad ignoratiam, in other words, arguing from ignorance. If there is a similarity between two things X and Y, to make the inference that X copied Y or Y copied X would require some form of evidence. To address the contention that the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ borrowed or plagiarised Hellenic views on embryology, the philosophical implications of inferring plagiarism from similarity must be discussed. ![]() To respond to this accusation, this section will articulate the mainstream Islamic scholarly position that the Prophet ﷺ did not plagiarise or borrow ideas from Hellenic medicine. They specifically claim that the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ plagiarised the works of the ancient Greek philosopher and polymath Aristotle, and the 2 nd century physician and philosopher Galen. Commentators assert that the quranic view on human development was plagiarised from ancient Greek (Hellenic) embryology. ![]()
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