Fables across time
de Sabiha Khemir, Megan Conway, Mayy Muḥammad Khalīfah, Anne-Imelda Radice, Jeffrey H. Patchen
"Kalila wa Dimna (Kalila and Dimna) is a collection of some of the most popular stories ever told. The animal fables were adapted from Middle Persian to Arabic by Ibn al-Muqaffaʹ in the city of Basra, Iraq, in the eighth century. The tales originated in India more than two thousand years ago; they were written in Sanskrit and called The Panchatantra (Five chapters)"--Page 11.

