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Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice

Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice

Al-Muqaffaʿ, Ibn
Fishbein, Michael
Fishbein, Michael

Hardcover

Series: Library of Arabic Literature, Book 76

Mythology & FolkloreFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1479806536
ISBN13: 9781479806539
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Jan 11 2022
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.60 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Timeless fables of loyalty and betrayal

Like Aesop's Fables, Kalīlah and Dimnah is a collection designed not only for moral instruction, but also for the entertainment of readers. The stories, which originated in the Sanskrit Panchatantra and Mahabharata, were adapted, augmented, and translated into Arabic by the scholar and state official Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ in the second/eighth century. The stories are engaging, entertaining, and often funny, from The Man Who Found a Treasure But Could Not Keep It, to The Raven Who Tried To Learn To Walk Like a Partridge and How the Wolf, the Raven, and the Jackal Destroyed the Camel.

Kalīlah and Dimnah is a mirror for princes, a book meant to inculcate virtues and discernment in rulers and warn against flattery and deception. Many of the animals who populate the book represent ministers counseling kings, friends advising friends, or wives admonishing husbands. Throughout, Kalīlah and Dimnah offers insight into the moral lessons Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ believed were important for rulers--and readers.

A bilingual Arabic-English edition.

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