According to prefaces of Kalilah wa Dimnah, the Persian physician Borzuya journeyed to India in the mid-sixth century to search of medicine to revive the dead. He instead brought back the book of tales that became the famous Arabic work Kalilah wa Dimnah. Borzuya is variously transliterated as Burzoy or Burzoe (Middle-Persian transliteration), Barzawayh (Arabic transliteration), and Burzuya (neo-Persian transliteration). He connects Persian, Indian, and Arabic learning.
Interests of authors of Kalilah and Dimnah’s paratexts became less personal and more general across paratexts spanning nearly a millennium. … Read the post Kalilah and Dimnah's changing paratexts and communicative relations
Ali ibn al-Shah’s “scholars are fundamental to society” introduction to Kalilah and Dimnah fantasizes a scholar justly achieving great public acclaim. … Read the post Ali ibn al-Shah's introduction to Kalilah and Dimnah
Ibn al-Muqaffa’s introduction to Kalilah and Dimnah served his worldly interests in moving from Zoroastrian Persia to the Islamic Arabic Abbasid caliphate. … Read the post ibn al-Muqaffa vigorously promoted Kalilah and Dimnah and himself
In his autobiography, the sixth-century Persian royal physician Borzuya seems to have translated Matthew’s Gospel into his own life circumstances. … Read the post Persian royal physician Borzuya pondered Matthew’s Gospel
Borzuya’s autobiography describes an inner struggle like the “contest of self and against self” in Augustine’s famous fourth-century Confessions. … Read the post Borzuya's autobiography compared to Augustine's Confessions