Stories to Connect Session 4

SESSION 4: AT THE INTERSECTION OF LITERATURE AND HISTORY III
Session Chair: Hugh Kennedy
Guy Ron-Gilboa (Bar-Ilan): Turning the Tables on the Captors: Wonder and
Moral Critique in Kitāb ʿAjāʾib al-Hind
Isabel Toral-Niehoff (FU Berlin): “Tell me a parable about kings and their assistants”. Political Allegories and Statecraft in Kalila wa Dimna
Respondent: Wen-Chin Ouyang (SOAS)