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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(scribe) of al-Jāḥiẓ. Kitāb al-Ibil (الابل) ‘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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House of Wisdom (redirect from Bayt al-Hikma)
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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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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Al-Jāhiz is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 83 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1976. Al-Jāhiz...
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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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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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(fī ạḫlāq al-mulūk) by al-Jāḥiẓ. Paris: Société d'édition "Les belles lettres", 1954. (ed.) Le Kitāb at-tarbīʿ wa-t-tadwīr de Ğāḥiẓ by al-Jāḥiẓ. Damascus:...
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Jinn (section In the Kitāb al-Bulhān)
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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2021-12-08 Al-Khatib, Muhammad Ajaj. "kitab al sunah qabla al Tadwin كتاب السنة قبل التدوين". al-maktaba.org. maktaba. Retrieved 10 November 2021. Jāḥiẓ; Hārūn...
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