al-Jāḥiẓ

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/2334

ʿAmr b. Baḥr, the famous Abbasid-era author

Names

Arabic: الجاحظ (عمرو بن بحر) = al-Jāḥiẓ (ʿAmr b. Baḥr) 1

Attributes

Male

Temporal Data

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1	before c. 1225	c.1225	877 A.H. / 1472	1995

Sources

1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 439، 461 (2) 408، 467، 523 (3) 52 (4) 433 (5) 441 [Arabic].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, “al-Jāḥiẓ” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/2334.

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Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; Wikipedia matching; and gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān

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