Kleeja and Dhamma - Abdullah bin al-Muqaffa

Author: Abdullah bin Al-Muqaffa Category: Story and Novel Publication date: 2016 Publisher: Dar Al-Hayat Cover design: Paper Number of pages: 285 About the book: The book "Kalila and Dimna" is considered one of the most famous and widely spread books of heritage, so much so that it is almost never absent from an Arab or foreign library. It is thus regarded as one of the books that crossed geographical and temporal barriers and differences of genres because it is from the literature of life. Its stories and tales are among the best and most famous circulated by Arabic and foreign tongues, as they run in this context alongside the global tales of "One Thousand and One Nights." The book "Kalila and Dimna" originates from the treasures of Indian thought, translated by Ibn Al-Muqaffa during the Abbasid era from Pahlavi language into Arabic. It aims to refine the soul, moral advice, social reform, and political guidance. Researchers unanimously agree that the stories of "Kalila and Dimna" have a political character of the first degree, as characters and events appear, narrated by some animals and birds, symbolizing real characters and events intentionally.