Cities with a population over 1000 database. 2013.
Dimnah — Dunghill, a city of Zebulun given to the Merarite Levites (Josh. 21:35). In 1 Chr. 6:77 the name Rimmon is substituted … Easton's Bible Dictionary
Panchatantra — An illustration from a Syrian edition dated 1354. The rabbit fools the elephant king by showing him the reflection of the moon. The Panchatantra (IAST: Pañcatantra, Sanskrit: पञ्चतन्त्र, Five Principles ) is an ancient Indian inter related… … Wikipedia
Persian literature — Introduction body of writings in New Persian (also called Modern Persian), the form of the Persian language written since the 9th century with a slightly extended form of the Arabic alphabet and with many Arabic loanwords. The literary form … Universalium
Ibn al-Muqaffa’, Abd Allah — (ca. 721–ca. 757) One of the first and most influential writers of prose fiction in Arabic, Ibn al Muqaffa’ was of Persian descent and devoted much of his energies to translating important Persian texts into Arabic in the years following the… … Encyclopedia of medieval literature
Islamic arts — Visual, literary, and performing arts of the populations that adopted Islam from the 7th century. Islamic visual arts are decorative, colourful, and, in religious art, nonrepresentational; the characteristic Islamic decoration is the arabesque.… … Universalium
Pañchatantra — Le Pañchatantra (du sanskrit पंचतंत्र Paṃchataṃtra signifiant « Le Livre d’instruction en cinq parties ») est un ancien recueil de contes et de fables (probablement le plus ancien qui nous soit parvenu). Ce livre écrit sous forme… … Wikipédia en Français
Pantschatantra — (»das fünffache Gewebe«), indische, in fünf Bücher zerfallende Sammlung von Tierfabeln und sonstigen Erzählungen, verbunden mit großen Mengen von Sentenzen über Lebensweisheit, in vielen Fassungen vorliegend. Die einzelnen Erzählungen sind in… … Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
fable — fabler, n. /fay beuhl/, n., v., fabled, fabling. n. 1. a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue: the fable of the tortoise and the hare; Aesop s fables. 2. a story not founded on fact:… … Universalium
Arabic literature — Introduction the body of written works produced in the Arabic language. The tradition of Arabic literature stretches back some 16 centuries to unrecorded beginnings in the Arabian Peninsula. At certain points in the development of… … Universalium
fable, parable, and allegory — Introduction any form of imaginative literature (allegory) or spoken utterance constructed in such a way that readers or listeners are encouraged to look for meanings hidden beneath the literal surface of the fiction. A story (rhetoric) is… … Universalium
