Kalilah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice

Like Aesop’s Fables, Kal?lah 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.

• | Author: Ibn al-Muqaffa?, Michael Fishbein, James E. Montgomery
• | Publisher: New York University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 04, 2023
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781479825776
• | ISBN-10: 1479825778