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    Kalīla wa-Dimna or Kelileh o Demneh (Persian: کلیله و دمنه) is a collection of fables. The book consists of fifteen chapters containing many fables whose...
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    Panchatantra (redirect from Calila et Dimna)
    Arabic as Kalīla wa Dimna. This is considered the first masterpiece of "Arabic literary prose." The introduction of the first book of Kalila wa Demna is...
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    Calila e Dimna is an Old Castilian collection of tales from 1251, translated from the Arabic text Kalila wa-Dimna by the order of the future King Alfonso...
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    "The Cuckold Carpenter Under the Bed of his Wife and her Lover" from an 18th-century edition of the Kalīla wa-Dimna...
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    Christine van Ruymbeke (2016). Kashefi's Anvar-e Sohayli: Rewriting Kalila wa-Dimna in Timurid Herat. Brill. ISBN 9789004314757. Georgii Tushkan (1940)...
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    Baital Pachisi (also known as Vikram and The Vampire) Hitopadesha Kalīla wa-Dimna A Book of Wisdom and Lies by Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani Seven Wise Masters...
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    into Arabic in 750 CE by Persian scholar Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa as Kalīlah wa Dimnah (Arabic: كليلة و دمنة). In Baghdad, the translation commissioned by...
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    سهیلی) ("Lights of Canopus"), a 15th-century Persian adaptation of Kalīla wa-Dimna (کلیله و دمنه) (itself an earlier Persian translation of the ancient...
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    world. Kalīla wa Dimna : His translation of a Middle Persian collection of animal fables, mostly of Indian origin, involving two jackals, Kalīla and Demna...
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    chess to India, along with the eighth-century collection of fables Kalīla wa-Dimna. By the 20th century, a substantial consensus developed regarding chess's...
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    golden spoon. As a writer, poet and patron of the arts and sciences, Kalila wa-Dimna was first translated to Persian during his reign. Donald MacGillivray...
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  • poet from Daylam. Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa - author and translator of Kalīla wa Dimna from Middle Persian. Abu-Mansur Daqiqi - Persian poet. Saman Khuda...
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    version was translated into Arabic by Ibn al-Muqaffa under the title of Kalila wa-Dimna or The Fables of Bidpai and became the greatest prose of Classical...
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    work has survived, most notably parts of his versification of the Kalila wa-Dimna, a collection of Indian fables. Born in the village of Banoj (located...
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    Publishers. 1992. pp. 61–62, 76–82. IIS.ac.uk Dr Fahmida Suleman, "Kalila wa Dimna" Archived 2013-11-03 at the Wayback Machine, in Medieval Islamic Civilization...
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    al-hikam, Tashih nahj al-balagha, Insan dar 'urf-i 'irfan, Tashih kalila wa dimna. He died on Saturday, 25 September 2021, at the age of 94. Iran's Supreme...
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    preserved. Among his lost works are versified fables collected in the Kalila wa Dimna. The language spread geographically from the 11th century on and was...
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    although written in Arabic, were originally in Sanskrit, such as the Kalila wa-Dimna (Panchatantra) and the Sendebar. Translation methods evolved under...
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    calls "the Gulistan painter" who contributed miniature paintings to a Kalīla wa-Dimna manuscript that is in the Gulistan Imperial Library in Tehran. Giti...
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    irregular as compared to other manuscripts at the time such as the Mamluk Kalila wa Dimna.  To use an example by Bernard O'Kane, there is a Maqāmāt illustration...
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    Iberia and north Africa—was a Castilian version of the animal fable Kalila wa-Dimna, a book that belongs to the genre of wisdom literature labeled Mirrors...
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  • work in the style of the Baghdad School include the illustrations in Kalīla wa-Dimna (Fables of Bidpai), (1222); a collection of fables by the Hindu, Bidpai...
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    commissioned Abu'l-Ma'ali Nasrallah to translate the Indian fable story Kalila wa Dimna from Arabic to Persian. In an attempt to strengthen his hold over the...
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    which was originally made in India and is called Fables of Bidpai orhe Kalīla wa Dimna is known. With his teachings in different subject areas, Patricius...
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    1253/4 (651 AH). Iftikhar al-Din learned Mongolian and translated the Kalila wa-Dimna into Mongolian. He and his brother Imam al-Din Yahya remained in office...
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  • history of the text, creation and impact of the collection of fables Kalīla wa-Dimna, which came to Europe from India via the Arab world. Its first Arabic...
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    in its westward migration it travelled from Sanskrit to Arabic (as Kalila wa Dimna), Persian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Old French, and eventually into all...
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    to family of the royal court. He makes the claim that, with keeping Kalila wa Dimna in mind, al-Mughira would reflect on the symbolism of the “tragic consequences...
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  • fables in a frame-tale format present in Arabic literature such as Kalīla wa-Dimna. He also translated al-Khawarizmi's tables and advocated for Arabic...
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  • Abdallah son of the Umayyad caliph Marwan II (c. 750) Ibn al-Muqaffa, Kalila wa Dimna (c. 750) Abu Yahya ibn al-Batriq (d. 815) Sirr al-Asrar (سر الأسرار)...
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