Les contes et fables indiennes, de Bidpaï et de Lokman

Bidpai and Luqman fables compiled and edited by the orientalist and archaeologist Antoine Galland (1646-1715) who was "most famous as the first European translator of "One thousand and one nights." His version of these tales exerted a huge influence on subsequent European literature and attitudes to the Islamic world. Luqman is a shadowy figure whose proverbs appear similiar to Aesop's fables, were first published in Erpenius's Arabic and Latin edition of 1615.