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The ways of the Shuubiya. Reference to Persia. Persia and Arabia compared. Arabia and Persia compared. Arabia and Persia contrasted. The prophets of Ajam. Reference to Persia. The Persian throne. Dicta of Mukaffa. Khalid al Barmaki. Dicta on Adab of Mukaffa. Reference to Barmaki. Reference to Barmaki. Sahal Ibn-Harun. Dictum of Buzurja Meher. Madaini quoted. Persia referred to.
There the interrogator is Kisra Anushirvan, and the question is, which thing is the best for a man who is indolent. Buzurg replies, "Wisdom, with which he may be happy." There is mention of several authors and books similar to Kalileh wa Dimneh with the names of their authors including Sahal Ibn Harun, Ibn Rayhani, Al Katib.
At the time this species of poetry prospered in Arabic literature there was a strong Persian influence and some of its representatives were undoubtedly inclined to Persian literary motifs, for instance, the Shuubite Sahal Ibn Harun. To the same type of literary monuments we have to add the vast field of story literature.
The form of the Legend, and the shapes of the hieroglyphs, and the late spelling of the words, prove that the inscription is the work of the Ptolemaic Period, though it is possible that the Legend in its simplest form is as old as the period to which it is ascribed in the Sāhal text, namely, the third dynasty, about 4100 B.C. The subject of the Legend is a terrible famine, which lasted for seven years, in the reign of King Tcheser, and which recalls the seven years' famine that took place in Egypt when Joseph was there.
Kaled told them that he had chosen them without any such regard, only because they were persons he could depend upon, whose valor he had proved, and who had the faith rooted in their hearts. One Cathib, happening to be called after his brother Sahal, and looking upon himself to be the better man, resented it as a high affront, and roundly abused Kaled.
This Legend is cut in hieroglyphs on a large rounded block of granite, which stands on the south-east portion of Sāhal, a little island in the First Cataract in Upper Egypt, two or three miles to the south of the modern town of Aswān, the ancient Syene.
Says Ismai: In the alphabet of the Romans there is no zad and among the Persians there is no tha. A longish definition and description of oratory by Ibn ul Mukaffa. Ibn Mukaffa again referred to. Mention of Sahal Ibn Harun. Mention of Abdallah Ibn Mukaffa. Reference to Khalid al Kisravi. Reference to Ibn al Mukaffa. Khalid al Kisrawi. Al Hurmuzan. On the service of kings.
The text of this most interesting legend is found in hieroglyphics on one side of a large rounded block of granite some eight or nine feet high, which stands on the south-east portion of Sahal, a little island lying in the First Cataract, two or three miles to the south of Elephantine Island and the modern town of Aswan.
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