Modalities of Fictionality in the Arabic Tradition: Kalīla wa-Dimna’s Readers from the Third/Ninth to the Sixth/Twelfth Century

This study interrogates the concept of fictionality in the premodern Arabic tradition through probing into different readings of Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ’s Book of Kalīla and Dimna. Instead of presupposing the applicability of the modern concept of fictionality, I suggest to use the concept as a hermeneutic...

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Main Author: Stephan, Johannes (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Journal of Abbasid Studies
Year: 2022, Volume: 9, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 8-39
Further subjects:B Textual Transmission
B Poetics
B Ibn Sīnā
B Ibn Qutayba
B al-Bīrūnī
B al-Yamanī
B Practical Wisdom
B Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih
B Ibn Rushd
B Fictionality
B al-Yaʿqūbī
B Adab
B Reliability
B takhyīl
B Kalīla wa-Dimna
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