Al-Jahiz (natus anno 776 Basrae; mortuus mense Decembri anno 868 aut Ianuario anno 869; Arabice:الجاحظ = al-Ǧāḥiẓ; verius أبو عثمان عمرو بن بحر محبوب الكناني الليثي البصري = Abū ʿUṯmān ʿAmr ibn Baḥr Maḥbūn al-Kinānī al-Līṭī al-Baṣrī) fuit scriptor Arabicus.

Auctor prosae Arabicae traditionem Arabicam cum philosophia Graeca coniungere studuit. Plus quam ducenta opera reliquit, quorum circiter quinquaginta exstant.

Varietates nominis

• Abu Uthman Amr Ibn Bahr al-Dschahis
• Abū-ʿUṯmān ʿAmr Ibn-Baḥar al-Ǧāḥiẓ
• Abū-ʿUṯmān ʿAmr Ibn-Baḥr al-Ǧāḥiẓ
• Abū-ʿUṯmān ʿAmr Ibn-Baḥr al-Ǧāḥiẓ al-Baṣrī
• Abu ʿOthman ʿAmr Ibn Baḥr al-Jaḥiẓ
• Abū ʿUthmān ibn Baḥr al-Jāḥiẓ
• ʿAmr al-Ǧāḥiẓ Ibn-Baḥr
• ʿAmr Ibn-Baḥr al-Ǧāḥiẓ
• al-Ǧāḥiẓ
• Djaḥiẓ
• Jāḥiẓ

Sententiae de Al-Jahiz

• One of the greatest prose writers in classical Arabic literature (Bernard Lewis)
• Al-Jahiz was one of the most productive and frequently quoted scholars in Arabic literature. His originality, wit, satire, and learning, made him widely known. (Philip K. Hitti)

Editiones

• Muhammad Harun: Le Caire. 1938–1945.
• Charles Pellat: Livre des mulets / Abū-ʿUthmān ʿAmr Ibn-Baḥr al Jāḥiẓ.Bibliothèque Jàhizienne. Muṣṭafā al-Bābī al-Ḥalabī, Le Caire 1955.
• G. van Vloten: Le livre des beautés et des antithèses attribué à Abu Othman ibn Bahr al-Djahiz al-Basra. Leiden 1898.
• G. van Vloten: Tria opuscula auctore Abu Othman Amr ibn Bahr al-Djahiz Basrensi. Leiden 1903.

Weblinks

• Jean-Marc Warszawski de Al-Jahiz
• Ibrahim ibn Sayyar al-Nazzam (Vita brevis)

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