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New Spotlight: Kalila and Dimna - AnonymClassic

AnonymClassic is the first ever comprehensive study of Kalila and Dimna (a book of wisdom in fable form), a text of premodern world literature. Its spread is comparable to that of the Bible, except that it passed from Hinduism and Buddhism via Islam to Christianity.

News vom 23.10.2018

Its Arabic version, produced in the 8thcentury, when this was the lingua franca of the Near East, became the source of all further translations up to the 19thcentury. The work’s multilingual history involving circa forty languages has never been systematically studied. The absence of available research has made world literature ignore it, while scholars of Arabic avoided it because of its widely diverging manuscripts, so that the actual shape of the Arabic key version is still in need of investigation.