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Kalīlah and Dimnah

Author : Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479806544
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Kalīlah and Dimnah written by Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Burzōy's Voyage to India and the Origin of the Book of Kalīlah Wa Dimnah

Author : François de Blois
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780947593063
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Burzōy's Voyage to India and the Origin of the Book of Kalīlah Wa Dimnah written by François de Blois and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Kalila wa Dimna

Author : Munther Younes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000081761
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kalila wa Dimna written by Munther Younes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specifically designed for students of Arabic, this fully illustrated rendition of the Arabic literary classic enhances students’ reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills through the medium of these fun, engaging, and culturally relevant tales. The first part of this second edition follows the original order of the stories, with new vocabulary explained in footnotes throughout. In the second part, grammar explanations and a wealth of exercises provide ample opportunities for readers to improve their understanding of the stories and strengthen their command of Arabic grammar and Arabic writing. The audio material, containing the texts of the stories read by native speakers, is available to download free online to help develop the learner’s listening skills. Suitable for both class use and independent study, Kalila wa Dimna: for Students of Arabic is a must for all intermediate to advanced students wishing to enhance their language skills and discover one of the most popular pieces of Arabic literature ever written.

Kalila and Dimna

Author : Ramsay Wood
Publisher : Saqi Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kalila and Dimna written by Ramsay Wood and published by Saqi Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of Ramsay Wood's definitive English retelling of The Fables of Bidpai.

Al-Jahiz: In Praise of Books

Author : James E. Montgomery
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 074868333X
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Book Synopsis Al-Jahiz: In Praise of Books by : James E. Montgomery

Download or read book Al-Jahiz: In Praise of Books written by James E. Montgomery and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edinburgh University Press will publish two self-contained guides to reading al-Jahiz that also shed light on his society and its writings. This first volume, 'In Praise of Books', is devoted to bibliomania and al-Jahiz's bibliophilia. Volume 2, In Censure of Books, explores Al-Jahiz's bibliophobia. Al-Jahiz was a bibliomaniac, theologian, and spokesman for the political and cultural elite, a writer who lived, counselled and wrote in Iraq during the first century of the 'Abbasid caliphate. He advised, argued and rubbed shoulders with the major power brokers and leading religious and intellectual figures of his day, and crossed swords in debate and argument with the architects of the Islamic religious, theological, philosophical and cultural canon. His many, tumultuous writings engage with these figures, their ideas, theories and policies. They give us an invaluable but much-neglected window onto the values and beliefs of this cosmopolitan elite.

Kalila and Dimna

Author : Ramsay Wood
Publisher : Medina Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780956708106
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Kalila and Dimna written by Ramsay Wood and published by Medina Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KALILA AND DIMNA or The Panchatantra (also known in Europe since 1481 as The Fables of Bidpai) is a multi-layered, inter-connected and variable arrangement of animal stories, with one story leading into another, sometimes three or four deep. These arrangements have contributed to world literature for over 2000 years, migrating across ancient cultures in a multitude of written and oral formats. All our beast fables from Aesop and the Buddhist Jataka Tales through La Fontaine to Uncle Remus owe this strange, shape-shifting 'book' a huge debt. In its original Arabic format, Kalila and Dimna (The Panchatantra being its Sanskrit precursor), ostensibly constitutes a handbook for rulers, a so-called 'Mirror for Princes' illustrating indirectly, through a cascade of teaching stories and verse, how to (and how not to!) run the kingdom of your life. In their slyly profound grasp of human nature at its best (and worst!) these animal fables, usually avoiding any moralistic human criticism, serve up digestible wise counsel for us all. Based on his collation of scholarly translations from key Sanskrit, Syriac, Arabic and Persian texts, as well as the 1570 English rendition by Thomas North, this is the first uncompromisingly modern re-telling in either the East or West for over 400 years. In Ramsay Wood's version the profound meanings behind these ancient fables shine forth as he captures a great world classic, making it fresh, relevant, fascinating and hugely readable. His second volume of fables from KALILA AND DIMNA picks up where the first, Fables of Friendship and Betrayal, left off - covering deceit, political skullduggery, murder, enemies, deadly monsters, kings, bees, princesses, monkeys, lions, crocodiles and how we all live and die together in peace or conflict. This is a book full of outrageously behaved animals and humans doing the most delightfully awful (yet sometimes gentle) things to each other. These are joyous, sad, amusing and sometimes brutal stories; their function being to educate both king and commoner alike in the ways of the world, the harsh realities that can often lurk beneath the surface of our cozy, everyday subjectivity.

Under The Influence

Author : Cynthia Robinson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004139990
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Under The Influence written by Cynthia Robinson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume of eleven innovative essays on cultural production in medieval Castile, blending original archival work with a rigorous consideration of comparative methodology for the study of religions and languages in contact.

Diwan 'Antarah ibn Shaddad

Author : James E. Montgomery
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 147986188X
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Diwan 'Antarah ibn Shaddad written by James E. Montgomery and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pre-Islamic warrior-poet 'Antarah ibn Shaddad, a composer of one of the Mu'allaqat, attracted the attention of the philologists who were active in Iraq at the nascence of the scholarly study of Arabic. These philologists collected and studied the diwan of 'Antarah as part of their recovery and codification of the Jahiliyyah: 'Antarah became one of the Six Poets, a collection of pre-Islamic poets associated with al-Asma'i, “the father of Arabic philology.” Two centuries later, in al-Andalus, al-Shantamari and al-Batalyawsi composed their commentaries on the diwans of the Six Poets. This study uncovers the literary history of 'Antarah’s diwan and presents five editions, with critical apparatus, of the extant recensions, based on an extensive collation of the surviving manuscripts. An Arabic edition with English scholarly apparatus.

A Companion to World Literature

Author : Ken Seigneurie
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781118635193
Total Pages : 3808 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to World Literature written by Ken Seigneurie and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 3808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to World Literature is a far-reaching and sustained study of key authors, texts, and topics from around the world and throughout history. Six comprehensive volumes present essays from over 300 prominent international scholars focusing on many aspects of this vast and burgeoning field of literature, from its ancient origins to the most modern narratives. Almost by definition, the texts of world literature are unfamiliar; they stretch our hermeneutic circles, thrust us before unfamiliar genres, modes, forms, and themes. They require a greater degree of attention and focus, and in turn engage our imagination in new ways. This Companion explores texts within their particular cultural context, as well as their ability to speak to readers in other contexts, demonstrating the ways in which world literature can challenge parochial world views by identifying cultural commonalities. Each unique volume includes introductory chapters on a variety of theoretical viewpoints that inform the field, followed by essays considering the ways in which authors and their books contribute to and engage with the many visions and variations of world literature as a genre. Explores how texts, tropes, narratives, and genres reflect nations, languages, cultures, and periods Links world literary theory and texts in a clear, synoptic style Identifies how individual texts are influenced and affected by issues such as intertextuality, translation, and sociohistorical conditions Presents a variety of methodologies to demonstrate how modern scholars approach the study of world literature A significant addition to the field, A Companion to World Literature provides advanced students, teachers, and researchers with cutting-edge scholarship in world literature and literary theory.

Mouse Muse

Author : Lorna Owen
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580933947
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Mouse Muse written by Lorna Owen and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully designed introduction to art history by way of artworks that feature the mouse—from the ancient world to drawings by Picasso, Disney, and Art Spiegelman. Across centuries and civilizations, artists have used the mouse—the planet’s most common mammal after us—to illustrate our myths and beliefs. Mice have appeared as Japanese symbols of good luck or medieval emblems of evil, in Arab fables, Russian political satire and Nazi propaganda, as scientific tools and to help us challenge the way we see nature. With more than 80 rarely reproduced works—including paintings by Hieronymus Bosch and Gustav Klimt, a silkscreen by Andy Warhol, a print by Hokusai, a photograph by André Kertész, a sculpture by Claes Oldenburg, a video installation by Bruce Nauman, a performance by Joseph Beuys, and many more—Lorna Owen has created an engaging presentation of an extraordinary range. The pieces, which represent every period of visual art, are accompanied by Owen’s intriguing text about the story behind each work. She has combined her passion for art and her empathy for the unsung archetype of the animal kingdom to explain not only how or why the artist came to use the mouse as a subject, but how the art, in the end, reveals more about us than it could ever reveal about this humble creature.

Fictional Storytelling in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004307729
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Fictional Storytelling in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers an overview of the rich narrative material circulating in the medieval Mediterranean. As a multilingual and multicultural zone, the Eastern Mediterranean offered a broad market for tales in both oral and written form and longer works of fiction, which were translated and reworked in order to meet the tastes and cultural expectations of new audiences, thus becoming common intellectual property of all the peoples around the Mediterranean shores. Among others, the volume examines for the first time popular eastern tales, such as Kalila and Dimna, Sindbad, Barlaam and Joasaph, and Arabic epics together with their Byzantine adaptations. Original Byzantine love romances, both learned and vernacular, are discussed together with their Persian counterparts and with later adaptations of western stories. This combination of such disparate narrative material aims to highlight both the wealth of medieval storytelling and the fundamental unity of the medieval Mediterranean world. Contributors are Carolina Cupane, Faustina Doufikar-Aerts, Massimo Fusillo, Corinne Jouanno, Grammatiki A. Karla, Bettina Krönung, Renata Lavagnini, Ulrich Moennig, Ingela Nilsson, Claudia Ott, Oliver Overwien, Panagiotis Roilos, Julia Rubanovich, Ida Toth, Robert Volk and Kostas Yiavis.

Robotech Visual Archive: Genesis Climber MOSPEADA

Author : UDON
Publisher : Udon Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 9781772940251
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Robotech Visual Archive: Genesis Climber MOSPEADA written by UDON and published by Udon Entertainment. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robotech is a sweeping science-fiction anime epic in which humans use a vast arsenal of transforming robotic mecha to defend the Earth against alien domination. The franchise has captivated fans for over 35 years, and is widely credited with popularizing anime around the world. Robotech Visual Archive: Genesis Climber MOSPEADA is the ultimate collection of artwork gathered from Robotech's third saga -- "The New Generation". Included in this epic tome are mecha designs, character illustrations, pre-production concepts, key art, location artwork, a full episode guide, and more!

The Pancatantra

Author : Sarma, Visnu
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0140455663
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Pancatantra written by Sarma, Visnu and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-08-31 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First recorded 1500 years ago, but taking its origins from a far earlier oral tradition, the Pancatantra is ascribed by legend to the celebrated, half-mythical teacher Visnu Sarma. Asked by a great king to awaken the dulled intelligence of his three idle sons, the aging Sarma is said to have composed the great work as a series of entertaining and edifying fables narrated by a wide range of humans and animals, and together intended to provide the young princes with vital guidance for life. Since first leaving India before AD 570, the Pancatantra has been widely translated and has influenced a cast number of works in India, the Arab world and Europe, including the Arabian Nights, the Canterbury Tales and the Fables of La Fontaine. Enduring and profound, it is among the earliest and most popular of all books of fables.

On the Migration of Fables

Author : Friedrich Max Müller
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465536124
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book On the Migration of Fables written by Friedrich Max Müller and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Book of Charlatans

Author : Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Jawbarī
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479897639
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Charlatans written by Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Jawbarī and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovering the professional secrets of con artists and swindlers in the medieval Middle East The Book of Charlatans is a comprehensive guide to trickery and scams as practiced in the thirteenth century in the cities of the Middle East, especially in Syria and Egypt. The author, al-Jawbarī, was well versed in the practices he describes and may well have been a reformed charlatan himself. Divided into thirty chapters, his book reveals the secrets of everyone from “Those Who Claim to be Prophets” to “Those Who Claim to Have Leprosy” and “Those Who Dye Horses.” The material is informed in part by the author’s own experience with alchemy, astrology, and geomancy, and in part by his extensive research. The work is unique in its systematic, detailed, and inclusive approach to a subject that is by nature arcane and that has relevance not only for social history but also for the history of science. Covering everything from invisible writing to doctoring gemstones and quack medicine, The Book of Charlatans opens a fascinating window into a subculture of beggars’ guilds and professional con artists in the medieval Arab world. A bilingual Arabic-English edition.

Kalilah and Dimnah

Author : Ion Grant Neville Keith-Falconer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Kalilah and Dimnah written by Ion Grant Neville Keith-Falconer and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kalila and Dimna; or, The fables of Bidpai, tr. from the Arab. by W. Knatchbull

Author : Bīdpāī
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Kalila and Dimna; or, The fables of Bidpai, tr. from the Arab. by W. Knatchbull written by Bīdpāī and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: