Al-Jahiz al-Jāḥiẓ (Arabic: الجاحظ) (full name Abū ʿUthman ʿAmr ibn Baḥr al-Kinānī al-Baṣrī أبو عثمان عمرو بن بحر الكناني البصري) (born in Basra 767 – December 868/January 869) was an Arabic prose writer and author of works of literature Mu’tazili theology and politico-religious polemics.
birth date
0776-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
birth place
Abbasid Caliphate, Basra
death place
Abbasid Caliphate, Basra
influenced
Ebn Meskavayh, Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī, Ibn Tufail, Ibn Maḍāʾ
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