Al-Jahiz
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Abu Uthman Amr ibn Bahr al-Kinani al-Basri, commonly known as al-Jahiz, was an Arab Muslim theologian, intellectual, and litterateur known for his individual Arabic prose. A polymath who lived during
Syrian stamp of al-Jahiz from 1968
A page from a reproduction of al-Jāḥiẓ's Kitāb al-Hayawān depicting an ostrich (Struthio camelus) in a nest with eggs. Basra.
Kitāb al-Hayawān
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The Kitāb al-Ḥayawān is an Arabic translation of treatises of Aristotle's:
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…who paid him five thousand gold coins. The 11th-century scholar al-Khatib al-Baghdadi dismissed it as "little more than a plagiarism" of Aristotle's Kitāb al-Hayawān – a charge of plagiarism was levelled against Aristotle himself with regard to a certain "Asclepiades of Pergamum". Later scholars have noted that there…
Page from the Kitāb al-Hayawān by Al-Jahiz.