Overview
Biography and setting
Al-Jahiz is presented as scholar associated with Basra. The working chronology for this record is 159-255 AH / 776-868 CE. A major prose stylist associated with adab, argument, science, and society. Al-Jahiz is presented as essayist and literary thinker associated with Basra. The working chronology for this record is 159-255 AH / 776-868 CE. A major prose stylist associated with adab, argument, science, and society.
Research context
This profile belongs to the literary-intellectual strand: prose, rhetoric, language, adab, public argument, and social observation.
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159-255 AH / 776-868 CE
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Literature and language
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