The Fables of Pilpay - Free Audiobook
Author(s): Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ,
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- 1. Preface
- 2. Introduction
- 3. The Story Of Dabschelim And Pilpay
- 4. The Travelling Pidgeon
- 5. The Falcon and the Raven
- 6. The greedy and ambitious Cat
- 7. The poor Man who became a great King
- 8. The Leopard and the Lion
- 9. The Merchant and his Children
- 10. The King and his two Sons
- 11. The Demise, the Falcon, and the Raven
- 12. The Countryman and several Rats
- 13. The Carpenter and the Ape
- 14. The two Travellers, and the Lion carved in Stone
- 15. The Fox and the Hen
- 16. The Sparrow and the Sparrow-hawk
- 17. The King who from a savage Tyrant, became benign and just
- 18. A Raven, a Fox, and a Serpent
- 19. The Crane and the Craw-fish
- 20. The Rabbit, the Fox, and the Wolf
- 21. The Lion and the Rabbit
- 22. The two Fishermen and the three Fishes
- 23. The Scorpion and the Tortoise
- 24. The Falcon and the Hen
- 25. The Nightingale and the Countryman
- 26. The Hunter, the Fox, and the Leopard
- 27. The Wolf, the Fox, the Raven, and the Camel
- 28. The Angel Ruler of the Sea and two Birds, called Gerandi
- 29. The Tortoise and two Ducks
- 30. Two young Merchants, the one crafty, and the other without Deceit
- 31. The Frog, the Craw-fish, and the Serpent
- 32. The Gardener and the Bear
- 33. The Merchant and his Friend
- 34. The Fox, the Wolf, and the Raven
- 35. The Ass and the Gardener
- 36. The Prince and his Minister
- 37. A Hermit who quitted the Desert to live at Court
- 38. The blind Man who travelled with one of his Friends
- 39. A religious Doctor and a Dervise
- 40. Three envious Persons that found Money
- 41. The ignorant Physician
- 42. The Raven, the Rat, and the Pigeons
- 43. The Partridge and the Falcon
- 44. The Man and the Adder
- 45. The Adventures of Zirac
- 46. A Husband and his Wife
- 47. The Hunter and the Wolf
- 48. The ravenous Cat
- 49. The two Friends
- 50. The Ravens and the Owls
- 51. The Origin of the Hatred between the Ravens and the Owls
- 52. The Elephants and the Rabbits
- 53. The Cat and the two Birds
- 54. The Dervise and the Four Robbers
- 55. The Merchant, his Wife, and the Robber
- 56. The Dervise, the Thief, and the Devil
- 57. The Monkeys and the Bears
- 58. The Mouse that was changed into a little Girl
- 59. The Serpent and the Frogs
About
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)
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