Kalila and Dimna: Its style and Rhetoric

Abstract

The present study is an attempt to analyze the stylistic aspects of Kalila and Dimna , the oldest prose work that presented social reform in a narrative from. These aspects gave that book its characteristic comic effect, wit and universality which made it appeal to a large reading public. The study investigate the writer's excellent way of molding the books original themes, stories, and images in a peculiar Arabic from which makes readers forget the fact that it is a translated text. The study should that the writer employed a language which is direct, transparent and dramatized his moral lesson through images, metaphors, and similes instead of vulgar dogmatic preaching.