The Fables of Pilpay
Author(s): Abdullah Ibn Al-muqaffaʿ
Genre(s): Culture & Heritage Fiction, Epistolary Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales
Narrators: April Mendis, Craig Campbell, Czandra, Rebecca Eden Walker, Tasha C Mapes, Kingsnake, Monicha1, Christina Fu, Michael MacTaggert, Alan Mapstone, Hannah Dormor, Gini Pug, Ellies, Jonathan Gary, Mary In Arkansas, Holtonhj64, Sandy Kurtz, Jennifer Louise
Number of Chapters: 59
Length: 06 hours and 46 minutes
Language: English
These moralistic stories within stories date back to the Sanskrit text Panchatantra (200 BC – 300 AD). They were first translated into Arabic by a Persian named Ruzbeh who named it Book of Kalilah and Dimna and then by Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa and later Joseph Harris in 1679 and then remodeled in 1818. Max Mueller noted that La Fontaine was indebted to the work and other scholars have noted that Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont and John Fletcher were both familiar with the fables. The Fables of Pilpay are a series of inter-woven fables, many of which deploy metaphors of anthropomorphized animals with human virtues and vices. (Summary by The introduction and Wikipedia)