Khulusi notes that it was during the Caliphate of Abu Ja'far al-Mansur (d.775) that the first Arabic version of Kalila wa Dimna came to light together with other works of the same literary style, namely al-Adab al-kabir (Greater Book of Manners) and al-Adab al-saghir (Lesser Book of Manners). The translation of Kalila wa Dimna from Middle Persian by the scholar Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa' (d.757) provides the first major Arabic literary prose narrative. Khulusi carries out a detailed examination of Ibn al-Muqaffa'’s work and identifies parallels with the early tales of The Arabian Nights.