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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House of Wisdom (redirect from Bayt al-Hikma)
studied in Baghdad between the 8th and 13th centuries, such as al-Jahiz, al-Kindi, and al-Ghazali among others, all of whom would have contributed to a...
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bibliography of ʻAmr ibn Baḥr al-Jāḥiẓ (ca. 773 - 869) are the titles listed in chapter five of al-Fihrist of Isḥāq al-Nadīm (d. ca. 998). Most of Chap...
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Farewell Sermon (section Report by Al-Jahiz)
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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Arabic (redirect from Al-luġatu-l-ʿarabīyatu)
credited with establishing the rules of Arabic prosody. Al-Jahiz (776–868) proposed to Al-Akhfash al-Akbar an overhaul of the grammar of Arabic, but it would...
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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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by the Sunni author al-Jahiz (d. 869), al-Kamil by the Sunni historian al-Mubarrad (d. 898), and al-Ansab by the Sunni historian al-Baladhuri (d. 892)...
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Mu'tazilism (redirect from Ahl al-'Adl wa al-Tawhid)
His famous student, Al-Jahiz, was also critical of those who followed such Hadiths, referring to his Hadithist opponents as al-nabita ("the contemptible")...
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Al-Shafi'i (Arabic: ٱلشَّافِعِيّ, romanized: al-Shāfiʿī; IPA: [a(l) ʃaːfiʕiː] ;767–820 CE) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, traditionist, theologian...
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Kalam (redirect from Ilm al-Kalam)
target: CITEREFal-Jahiz1979 (help) al-Jahiz 1979, p. 246 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFal-Jahiz1979 (help) Al-Jahiz (1979). Abd as-Salam M. Harun (ed...
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