Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice

Timeless fables of loyalty and betrayal Like Aesop's Fables, Kalīlah and Dimnah is a collection designed not...
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Author: Ibn Al-Muqaffaʿ
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Language: English
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Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice by Al-Muqaffaʿ, Ibn

Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice

$107.60

Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice

$107.60
Author: Ibn Al-Muqaffaʿ
Format: Hardcover
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.

Author: Ibn Al-Muqaffaʿ
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 01/11/2022
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9781479806539

About the Author
Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (Author)
Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (d. 139/757) was a Persian translator, author, thinker, and state official who wrote important treatises on rulership in Arabic.

Michael Fishbein (Editor, Translator)
Michael Fishbein is Lecturer Emeritus in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA.

James E. Montgomery (Translator)
James E. Montgomery, author of Al-Jāḥiẓ: In Praise of Books, is Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall. His latest publications are Loss Sings, a collaboration with the celebrated Scottish artist Alison Watt, and Dīwān ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād: A Literary-Historical Study.


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