Ibn al-MuqaffaʿMuslim writer

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• Arabic literature ( in Arabic literature: The concept of adab )

  ...and worked in the various offices of the court translated works into Arabic. A major early contributor to this process was an 8th-century Persian scholar, Rūzbih, who adopted the Arabic name Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ. He translated from the Persian a collection of animal fables about kingship, the Panchatantra (a work of Indian origin), which he titled in Arabic ...

• Iranian Islamic culture ( in Iran: The ʿAbbāsid Caliphate (750–821) )

  ...played a conspicuous part in what was still an Arab milieu. Works of Indian provenance were translated into Arabic from Pahlavi, the written language of Sāsānian Iran, notably by Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (c. 720–757). The wisdom of both the ancient East and West was received and discussed in Baghdad’s schools. The metropolis’s outposts confronted Byzantium as well as...

• Islamic literature ( in Islamic arts: Development of literary prose )

  During the ʿAbbāsid period, literary prose also began to develop. Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (died c. 756), of Persian origin, translated the fables of Bidpai into Arabic under the title Kalīlah wa Dimnah. These fables provided Islāmic culture with a seemingly inexhaustible treasure of tales and parables, which are to be found in different guises throughout the...

• Persian literature ( in Persian literature: The Arab invasion )

  ...was the book of Indian fables known as Kalīlah wa Dimnah (“Kalīlah and Dimnah”), which in the 6th century had been translated from Sanskrit to Middle Persian. Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ made an Arabic version during the 8th century that was later retranslated into Persian. He also translated the Khwatāy-nāmak (“Book of...