# Ibn al-Muqaffa

- id: ibn-al-muqaffa
- name in original script: عبد الله بن المقفع
- dates: c. 720–757
- roles: translator, author

Persian convert to Islam, state secretary, and the founder of Arabic literary prose. His Kalila wa-Dimna is less a translation than a reinvention; it became one of the most copied books in Arabic. He was executed around 756-759, still in his thirties.

## Crossings

- c. 750: Panchatantra into Arabic (translator) [attested]

## Sources

- Riedel, Dagmar (2010). Kalila wa Demna i. Redactions and Circulation.
- de Blois, François (1990). Burzoy's Voyage to India and the Origin of the Book of Kalilah wa Dimnah.