death_date death_place influenced era birth_place color main_interests image_caption birth_date article_title region
868-9 basra , abbasid caliphate ibn maḍāʾ miskawayh , al-biruni , ibn tufayl , ibn medieval era basra , abbasid caliphate #b 0c4de arabic literature '' kitāb al-hayawān '' in '' kitāb al-hayawān '' 776 al-jahiz
 muslim scholar
al-jahiz

al-jāḥiẓ -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- full name abū ʿuthman ʿamr ibn baḥr al-kinānī al-baṣrī -rrb- -lrb- born in basra , 776 -- december 868/january 869 -rrb- was an arabic prose writer and author of works of literature , mu ` tazili theology , and politico-religious polemics .
