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  • Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice
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    Product details:

    • Publisher New York University
    • Date of Publication 11 January 2022
    • Number of Volumes Print PDF

    • ISBN 9781479806539
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages300 pages
    • Size 229x152 mm
    • Weight 816 g
    • Language English
    • 219

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    Long description:

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    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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