Abū ʿUthman ʿAmr ibn Baḥr al-Kinānī al-Baṣrī (Arabic: أبو عثمان عمرو بن بحر الكناني البصري), commonly known as al-Jāḥiẓ (Arabic: الجاحظ, The Bug Eyed, born 776; died December 868/January 869) was an Arab prose writer and author of works of literature, Mu'tazili theology, zoology, and politico-religious polemics.
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776 (age 1249) Basra, Abbasid Caliphate
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