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Timeless fables of loyalty and betrayal
Like Aesop's Fables, Kalilah 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-Muqaffa? 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.
Kalilah 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, Kalilah and Dimnah
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[A] delightful new translation of a major text of classical Arabic literature. * Al-Ahram Weekly *
[This translation] should immediately become the English translation of choice for this work. * Al-Usur al-Wusta *

Kalilah and Dimnah

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      Publisher New York University Press
      Published 4 April 2023
      ISBN-13 9781479825776
      978-1479825776
      ISBN-10 1479825778
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      Book Synopsis

      Timeless fables of loyalty and betrayal
      Like Aesop's Fables, Kalilah 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-Muqaffa? 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.
      Kalilah 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, Kalilah and Dimnah
      Trade Review
      [A] delightful new translation of a major text of classical Arabic literature. * Al-Ahram Weekly *
      [This translation] should immediately become the English translation of choice for this work. * Al-Usur al-Wusta *

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