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    al-Kinānī al-Baṣrī; c. 776–868/869), commonly known as al-Jahiz (Arabic: الجاحظ, romanized: al-Jāḥiẓ, lit. 'the bug eyed'), was an Arabic polymath and author...
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    Aristotle was Abū ʿUthmān al-Jāḥiẓ, who was born in Basra around 776 but he spent most of his life in Baghdad. Al-Ma’mun employed al-Jāḥiẓ as a personal tutor...
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  • (scribe) of al-Jāḥiẓ. Kitāb al-Ibil (الإبل) ‘The Camel’; al-Nadīm notes this book did not resemble the style of al-Jāḥiẓ. Kitāb al-Bayān wa-al-Tabyīn (البيان...
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  • of Muhammad: Al-Waqidi's Kitab al-Maghazi. Routledge. p. 544. ISBN 978-1-136-92113-1. Al-Jāḥiẓ (1998). البيان والتبيين / al-Bayān wa-al-tabyīn (in Arabic)...
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    (IAU) in 1976. Al-Jāhiz is named for the Arab writer Al-Jahiz, who died in Basra, Iraq, in 869 C.E. Lu Hsun crater is southwest of Al-Jāhiz. Moore, Patrick...
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  • whom misogynistic ideology can be conveyed. al-Damīrī, Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrā (Cairo 1978), 2:76–9 al-Jāḥiẓ, Le Kitāb at-tarbīʿ wa-t-tadwīr de Ğāḥiẓ,...
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    pleases demons and devils by prohibited offerings and sinful acts.(p141–142) Al-Jāḥiẓ is another author who tells about another man allegedly controlling jinn...
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    and complement each other. In Kitab al-Hayawan ('Book of the Animals'), the 9th-century Muslim scholar al-Jāḥiẓ references several facets of natural...
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    jinn altogether. Al-Jāḥiẓ and al-Masʿūdī, explained jinn and demons as merely psychological phenomena. In his Kitāb al-Hayawān, al-Jāḥiẓ states that jinn...
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  • Aws al-Anṣārī (أبو زيد سعيد بن أوس الأنصاري; died 830 CE/215 AH) was an Arab linguist and a reputable narrator of hadith. Sibawayh and al-Jāḥiẓ were...
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