Kalīla wa Dimna
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Summary View
- Country
- Iran
- Institution
- Kitābkhana -i Malik
- Collection
- Turkish Manuscripts
- Shelfmark
- 1393
Contents
- Kalīla wa Dimna (Qāni‘i )
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- Author
- Qāni‘i
- قانعی
- Show other names
- Qāniʿī Ṭūsī, Aḥmad Ibn Maḥmūd
- Ahmad b. Mahmud Qani i
- احمد بن محمود قانعی
- Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad b. Banjīr al-Kāzirūnī al-Qāni‘
- قانعى طوسی، احمد بن محمود
- ابو الفضل احمد بن بجنیر الکازرونی القانع
- Biographical notes
- Qāni‘i is known to us largely from his own remarks at the beginning of his Kalīla wa Dimna. He records that he came to Anatolia to join the court of ‘Ala’ al-Din Kayqubad I in 618 AH [1221 CE], and served him and his successor Seljuk sultans, writing qasidas and a shahnama, all now lost. According to Aflākī he read an elegy on Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273’s death, meaning he must have been alive until at least 672 AH [1273 CE]. His sole surviving work is his Kalīla wa Dimna.
- Title
- Kalīla wa Dimna
- کلیله و دمنه
- Notes
- This versification of the famous morality tale was dedicated to Sultan Ghiyath al-Din Kaykhusraw II. There are very substantial differences in the text of the manuscripts, not represented in the published edition which is basically a reproduction of the Tehran manuscript.
- Composed probably in Konya in 658 AH [1260 CE].
- Patron: Sultan Ghiyath al-Din Kaykhusraw II
- Main language of text
- Persian
- Bibliography
- Editions
- Qāni‘ī, Aḥmad b. Mahmūd. Kalila wa Dimna-yi Manzum. Edited by M., Todua. Tehran: 1358.
- Studies
- Aflākī, Aḥmad. Manāḳib al-ʻārifīn: metin = Manāqib al-ʻārifīn. Translated by Yazıcı, Taḥsīn. Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basimevi, 1976-1980, pp. 221, 322.
- Ibn al-Fuwati, . Majmaʻ al-ādāb fī muʻjam al-alqāb. Edited by Kázim, Muhammad. Tehran: 1995-6, 2694.
- Koprulu, Mehmed Fuad. The Seljuks of Anatolia: Their history and culture according to local Muslim sources. Salt Lake City: 1992, pp. 15-17.
- Safa, Dhabih allah. Tarikh-i Adabiyat dar Iran. Tehran: 1382, pp. 487-506.
- Catalogue
- Rieu, Charles. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum. London: The British Museum, 1879-1883, 582-584.
- Show filiations
- British Library Add. 7766
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya 51.34
Physical Description
History
- Date of copy
- probably 16th century