Al-Jahiz

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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)

Categoria:Auctores Arabici
Categoria:Scriptores Iracae
Categoria:Nati 776
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