Kalilah and Dimnah - Fables of Virtue and Vice

"A collection of stories designed for the moral instruction and entertainment of readers"--

Info autore

Ibn al-Muqaffä (Author)
Ibn al-Muqaffä (d. 139/757) was a Persian translator, author, thinker, and state official who wrote important treatises on rulership in Arabic.
Marina Warner (Foreword by)
Marina Warner DBE is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London; a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her book Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights won the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, as well as the 2013 Sheikh Zayed Book Award.
Michael Fishbein (Translator)
Michael Fishbein is Lecturer Emeritus in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA.
James E. Montgomery (Translator)
James E. Montgomery is Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall. His latest publications are In Deadly Embrace: Arabic Hunting Poems, Fate the Hunter: Early Arabic Hunting Poems, and Kal¿lah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice, with Michael Fishbein. In 2024 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Ibn/ Fishbein Al-Muqaffa, Ibn al-Muqaffa', Al-Muqaffa&, Ibn Al-Muqaffa&703;, Ibn al-Muqaffa?
• Con la collaborazione di: Michael Fishbein (Traduzione), James E Montgomery (Traduzione), James E. Montgomery (Traduzione)
• Editore: New York University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9781479825776
• ISBN: 978-1-4798-2577-6
• Pagine: 300
• Dimensioni: 140 mm x 203 mm x 19 mm
• Serie: Library of Arabic Literature
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi