The version of the Sindbad narrative titled Kitāb al-Sindbād, or الوزراء السبعة [al-wuzarāʾ al-sabʿa, The Seven Viziers] is referenced in Arabic literature dating from the 9th and 10th centuries. Though no early versions of the text survive, allusions to the narrative may be found in al-Fihrist by Ibn al-Nadīm (d. 995 CE / 385 AH), in which Kitāb Sindbād al-Ḥakīm is referenced as a book of entertainment, and in Murūj al-Dhahab by al-Masʿūdī’ (d. 956 CE / 345 AH), who claims the wise man Sindbād lived during the reign of the Indian king Kush, and that the popular entertainment book known as Kitāb al-Sindbād relates the story of the Seven Viziers, the Prince, and the King's wife) (see Ateş 1948, pp. 12-13).
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| Siglum of the version of the Seven Sages |
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East
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Arabic
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Ateş (1948)
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No connected prints
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