THE ââALĪ IBN SHAH" PREFACE TO KALILAH WA DIMNAH
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1 Pp. 2-31 in the edition of Silvestre de Sacy (Paris, 1816). 2 op. cit., M6moire historique p. r5. 3 On this point see below, p. 83.
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1 See Fliigel's catalogue of the Vienna collection, no. 480, and Aumer's catalogue of the Munich collection, no. 619. Brockelmann, both in GAL Suppl., Bd. I, p. 235, and in the Encyclopaedia of Islam (under the heading Kalila wa Dimna), calls the author of this versification al-Saghani; but there is no mention of this nisba in the catalogue descriptions of either of the manuscripts, and it is therefore not clear from what source Brockelmann derived it. Moreover, the statement made in GAL Suppl-, that this version was completed in 640 a.h., is misleading. It is clear from what Fliigel says, that an earlier version made by the same author was completed in 64o but was subsequently lost or destroyed; the version which we have preserved to us is a second one made in 667. It is clear that neither of the two earliest Arabic versifications (by Aban al-Lahiql and Ibn al- Habbdriyah) can come into the question; for neither of these authors could be termed a "Scholar of Ghaznah".
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1 La version arabe de Kalilah et Dimnah d'apres le plus ancien ms. arabe date (Beyrouth, 1905). The much earlier ms. of 6r8 was of course unknown at the time when Cheikho published this.
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