The life and works of Jāḥiẓ
first published 1969 Routledge & K. Paul, 1969 286 pages
Al-Jāhiz, who lived in Basra and Baghdad in the eighth and ninth centuries A.D., was one of the most famous and prolific of Arab prose writers. A versatile polymath and popularizer, known for his works of adab and his religious and political polemics as well as for his literary works of social satire (such as the Book of Misers), al-Jāhiz has been called brilliant and superficial: and certainly his style was characte...
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