Two Crafty Jackals: The Animal Fables of Kalilah and Dimnah

Title

en_US Two Crafty Jackals: The Animal Fables of Kalilah and Dimnah

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First printing

en_US Elizabeth Laird

Creator

en_US Laird, Elizabeth See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Beg, Sadiqi

Date

2016-01-25T15:38:44Z

en_US 2014-08

en_US 2013

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:38:44Z

Date Issued

en_US 2013

Abstract

en_US Here is a lovely, brief, well executed Kalilah and Dimnah. New to me and perfectly placed as Kalilah's warning to Dimnah is The Hare, the Wolf, and the Fox (22-23). In fact, several of the stories here are new to me: The Scorpion and the Tortoise (26-27), The Hawk and the Chicken (30), The Gardener and the Nightingale (32-33); and The Frog, the Crab, the Snake, and the Weasel (46-47). Each is strategically placed in the evolving drama. The illustrations here are easier to track than where I have encountered them elsewhere because here they include only one scene and focus on it. The surrealistic multi-colored background mountains from the originals are here. So is the weird fire surrounding the witness tree (48). Particularly good among the illustrations are The Hare and the Lion (25); the climactic battle (43); and The Gardener and the Bear (50). A helpful section on 60-63 shows what the original manuscript pages and their illustrations look like. Dimnah here starves in prison, full of bitter regret for what he had done to Shanzabeh (58). What a fine book!

Identifier

en_US 9780991992812 (bound)

en_US 10261 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76249

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Aga Khan Museum

en_US New York, NY

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.L357 Tw 2013 See all items with this value

en_US Kalila and Dimna See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole