Kashefi's Anvar-E Sohayli: Rewriting Kalila Wa-Dimna in Timurid Herat

Contents
Preface
	Research Strategy
	Positioning the AS within the KD Field
	Mapping Out My Book
	Practical Information
Acknowledgments
List of Stories and Taxonomy
	Table of Contents of the AS1
	Taxonomy
Chapter 1 – Kāshefi Composes the Anvār-e Sohayli
	1 The Author and the Patron
	2 The Contents of Kāshefi’s Dibācheh
	3 Rewriting Nasrollah Monshi’s KD Version
	4 The Subject Matter of the AS
	5 The Table of Contents
Chapter 2 – Being Pernickety about “Animal Fables”
	1 Fussing about “Fables”
	2 Nit-picking on Zabān-e Vohush?
	3 Animals as Unstable Emblems
	4 A Bevy of Human Actors
	5 Humans and Animals
	6 Why Write Animal Stories for a Political Audience?
Chapter 3 – The Biggest Bees in Kāshefi’s Bonnet: A ThematicAnalysis
	1 Mirrors for Princes
	2 Seeking Useful Friends and Genuine Comrades
	3 Introducing the Trickster-Rhetorician
Chapter 4 – Building Appreciation for “Tasteless Bombast”
	1 Kāshefi’s “Degenerate Style”
	2 Prosimetrum
	3 The Effect of the Verse Quotations and Eqtebās
Chapter 5 – Topical Web, Structural Maze
	1 The New Double Outer Frame
	2 The Fourteen Main Stories
	3 The Embedded Sub-Stories
	4 Shiruyeh Knew That the First Bāb is the Book in a Nutshell
Chapter 6 – The Skeleton
	1 A Skeleton in the Cupboard of Persian Literary Studies!
	2 Sir William’s 1771 Sugarchest
	3 A Language Exercise
Chapter 7 – A Collaborative Effort: The “Noble” HereditaryLine of KD Versions and Translations in the PersianTradition
	1 Concerns, Doubts and Queries
	2 The Lost Sanskrit Text
	3 Borzuyeh’s Lost Pahlavi Text
	4 The Old Syriac Version
	5 Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ’s Arabic KD
	6 Balʿami’s and Rudaki’s Opus Geminum
	7 Nasrollah Monshi’s KD Prosimetrum
Chapter 8 – Conclusions
Bibliography
Index