# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/al-jahiz
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:49:15.440Z

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name: "Al-Jahiz"
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description: "A 9th-century polymath whose sprawling observations of animal behavior anticipated natural selection by a thousand years, and whose prose style set the standard for Arabic literature."
tagline: "Arabic writer (776–869)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Abu Uthman Amr ibn Bahr al-Kinani al-Basri, called al-Jahiz ("the bug eyed"), was born around 776 in Basra and became a scribe and teacher before rising into the literary circle of Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun around 815. Aligned with the rationalist Mu'tazilite school, he wrote across theology, zoology, philosophy, linguistics, and rhetoric, producing nearly 140 works — 75 survive. His seven-volume Kitāb al-Ḥayawān used animals as a lens for principles now recognized as ethology and ecosystem function; Kitāb al-Bayān wa-l-tabyīn explored human communication; Kitāb al-Bukhalāʾ collected sharp anecdotes on miserliness. One of the first Muslims to work with Arabic biblical translations, he wrote until his death in 868 or 869. Tradition holds that a toppled wall of books buried him.