Kalila wa Dimna book
It is a book translated into Arabic about the Book of the Four Seasons, and the researchers suggest that one of the books of the book was Indian in origin, although they could not determine his personality, as it was written in Sanskrit during the fourth century AD, and then translated into the Persian Pahlavi language at the beginning of the sixth century AD at the request of From Khosrau I, then translated into Arabic in the eighth century AD, that is, during the Abbasid Caliphate, by Abdullah Ibn Al-Muqaffa under the title (Kalila wa Dimna), and his translated work is considered one of the best prose books in Arabic literature, then the book continued to be translated into other languages. Such as: Syriac, Greek, Hebrew, and Latin.
Contents of the book Kalila and Dimna
The introduction indicates that the author is the Indian sage Bedia, who wrote the book for the King of India Dibshim, and the author used animals and birds as main characters in it, which in fact symbolize human personalities. Each story has a specific topic that aims to present a number of sermons and rulings to its reader, and the most prominent of these topics is the relations between the rulers and the ruled. As for the most prominent animal characters mentioned in the book, they are represented in the lion as being the king of the forest, and the bull as being the servant of the king, and two jackals who are represented in the night. And addiction.
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The narration style in the book Kalila wa Dimna relied on the stories included in other stories, that is, what is known as the framework stories, which is similar in style to the style of the book of One Thousand and One Nights, but in an expanded way. The book combines being a single story composed of a group of stories, and explaining each of them separately from the other, and although the included stories differed in their quality from the framework story, they supported it in terms of function, as it worked as an extension of it, because there is a plan A narrative that combines the frame story with the embedded stories.
The influence of the book Kalila wa Dimna on world literature
The influence of the book was evident in a number of international literary stories, the most famous of which are Aesop's Fables, and Mary's French Fables, in addition to a number of other international stories and fables whose heroes are animals. The book, as some critics believe that the stories of the writings of One Thousand and One Nights and Sinbad are inspired by the book Kalila wa Dimna.
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