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Kalilah and Dimnah - Fables of Virtue and Vice (Hardcover)
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Kalilah and Dimnah - Fables of Virtue and Vice (Hardcover)
Series: Library of Arabic Literature
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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 offers insight into the
moral lessons Ibn al-Muqaffa' believed were important for
rulers-and readers. A bilingual Arabic-English edition.
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