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Who were the pioneers of Arabic literature?

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Among the pioneers of Arabic prose were Ibn al-Muqaffa, the translator of the Indian fables of Kalila wa Dimna, and al-Jahiz (d. 868), an influential figure in the establishment of the belles-lettres compendia ( adab ) as a dominant literary theme.

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