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Kalīlah and Dimnah : fables of virtue and vice / Ibn al-Muqaffaʻ ; edited by Michael Fishbein ; translated by Michael Fishbein and James E. Montgomery ; volume editors, Beatrice Gruendler, James E. Montgomery.

PJ7741.B5 E5 2021

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Format:: Book
Contributor:: Ibn al-Muqaffaʻ, -approximately 760, translator.; Fishbein, Michael, editor, translator.; Montgomery, James E. (James Edward), 1962- translator, volume editor.; Gruendler, Beatrice, 1964- volume editor.
Series:: Library of Arabic literature
Language:: Arabic; English
Subjects (All):: Didactic literature, Arabic--Translations into English.; Didactic literature, Arabic.
Genre:: Fables.
Physical Description:: xxxix, 430 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Other Title:: Kitāb Kalīlah wa-Dimnah
Place of Publication:: New York : New York University Press, [2021]
Language Note:: Facing page translation with Arabic on the versos and English on the rectos.
Contents:: Machine generated contents note: Kalilah and Dimnah; How Anusharwan Sent Barzawayh to India to Transcribe Kalilah and Dimnah; The Book of Kalilah and Dimnah; The Man Who Found a Treasure but Could Not Keep It; The Man Who Thought He Had Mastered the Rules of Good Arabic; The Man Who Neglected to Put His Knowledge to Use; The Sesame Merchant Who Tried to Cheat His Partner; The Poor Man Who Received an Unexpected Boon from a Thief; The Chapter of Barzawayh the Physician; The Credulous Burglar; The Perplexed Lover; The Merchant and the Musician; The Man in the Well; The Lion and the Ox; The Man Who Escaped from the Wolf; The Monkey and the Carpenter; The Fox and the Drum; The Ascetic and the Thievish Disciple; The Fox and the Wild Goats; The Woman Who Kept Prostitutes; The Shoemaker's Wife and the Barber's Wife; The Crow Who Outwitted a Cobra; The Heron Who Would Kill a Crab but Killed Himself; The Rabbit Who Vanquished a Lion; The Three Fishes; The Louse and the Flea; The Duck Who Mistook the Reflection of a Star for a Fish; How the Wolf, the Crow, and the Jackal Destroyed the Camel; The Shorebird Titawa and the Sea; The Ducks and the Turtle; The Monkey, the Firefly, and the Bird; The Swindler and His Partner the Simpleton; The Heron, the Snake, and the Mongoose; The Mice Who Ate a Hundredweight of Iron; The Investigation of Dimnah; The Wife and Her Lover the Painter; The Quack Physician Who Claimed Knowledge; The Plowman and His Two Wives; The Wife, the Falconer, and the Parrots; The Ring Dove; The Rat's Story; The Woman Who Traded Husked for Unhusked Sesame; The Hunter, the Boar, the Gazelle, and the Wolf; The Gazelle's Story; The Crows and the Owls; How the Enmity between Crows and Owls Began; The Rabbit Who Claimed the Moon Was Her King; The Partridge, the Rabbit, and the Pious Cat; The Sly Fellows Who Tricked the Ascetic Out of His Kid; The Thief Who Caused the Merchant's Wife to Embrace Her Husband; The Ascetic Who Escaped When the Thief and the Demon Quarreled; The Carpenter Who Disbelieved His Own Eyes; The Lady Mouse and Her Choice of Husbands; The Cobra Who Stooped to Carry the King of the Frogs; The Turtle and the Monkey; The Donkey Who Had No Heart and No Ears; The Holy Man and the Mongoose; The Holy Man and His Jar of Butter; The Cat and the Rat; The King and the Bird Finzah; The Lion and the Jackal; King Haylar and His Minister Baylar; The Doves Who Filled Their Nest with Wheat and Barley; The Monkey and the Lentils; The Mendicant and the Goldsmith; The King's Son and His Companions; The Horseman, the Lioness, and the Jackal; The Ascetic and His Guest; The Raven Who Tried to Learn to Walk Like a Partridge.
Notes:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contains:: Kalīlah wa-Dimnah. English; Kalīlah wa-Dimnah.; Fables of Bidpai. English; Fables of Bidpai.
ISBN:: 9781479806539; 1479806536
OCLC:: 1250513696
Publisher Number:: 99989843565

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