The book of Sindbad
كتاب السندباد
The Sindbad story-book, named by al-Mas'udi among the translated tale-collections of 332 1.
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A book of translated tales. Al-Mas'udi lists it among the made-up fables that compilers had woven together, alongside "Hazar Afsana" and the book of Farza and Simas. 2
Ibn al-Nadim lists two copies of it, a large one and a small one. He says that the disagreement about it is like the disagreement about "Kalila wa Dimna", and that the more probable view, and the one closer to the truth, is that India composed it. 3
Sources
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p. 550
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p.550
- al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim, p.424
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