User talk:Debongu

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Panchatantra
Thanks for your careful help in making this a lot tighter. A recent ref for my Renaissance comment (which is not [esp today!], and has not been for a very long time, an acceptable idea) was Re-Orienting the Renaissance — Cultural Exchanges with the East, Palgrave MacMilllan, London 2005 There is also considerable material regarding the strong yet heavily Vatican-censored cultural influence on Europe of Arabic Sicily and Spain, but I'd need to dig for it. --Debongu 19:11, 11 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I have to confess I am a little skeptical with regard to the Brethren being that important. While it is true that they did influence a fair bit of Arabic thought, I don't see the influence affecting the Renaissance, both since none of what I know about the Renaissance has a 'flavor' of the Brethren (except for the Neo-Platonism, which I'm fairly sure was derived from the original texts and not the Brethren's writings), and since the first European mention of them I can see in the article is what, from the 1700s? As for your Vatican comment... possible but something that goes against conventional wisdom like that needs to be as heavily cited as the Brethren articles are in general. -- Gwern (contribs) 19:37, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Kalila wa dimna
I don't see why you insist on redirecting to Panchatantra when Kalila wa dimna has an article in its own name at Kalilag and Damnag? --Bluerain talk 05:27, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

I suggest that the Panchatantra article has more detail on the total subject of Kalila wa dimna. As you can see this book has had many different titles during its long cross-cultural history. For practical reasons I'm now veering away from my original idea of 'separate articles' expressed in July 06 (see below); yet I think the Syriac version Kalilag and Damnag can stand on its own for a while yet. Later I would try to blend in its accurate details to the Panchatantra article and then make it too a redirect. What do you think?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Panchatantra            --Debongu 06:41, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

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