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Ibn al-Muqaffa'

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Ibn al-Muqaffa'
Kahlil Gibran / Public domain · resizedfile
The animal fables of Kalila and Dimna traveled from Indian sources through Middle Persian before Ibn al-Muqaffa brought them into Arabic. His version gave the two jackals new readers. Comparing surviving manuscripts also shows how hard it is to recover one translator’s wording after centuries of copying and adaptation.
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