Al-Jahiz
![Syrian stamp of al-Jahiz from 1968](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Al-Jahiz_stamp%2C_1968%2C_Syria.jpg)
Ibn al-Nadim lists nearly 140 titles attributed to al-Jahiz, of which 75 are extant. The best known are ''Kitāb al-Ḥayawān'' (The book of the Animal), a seven-part compendium on an array of subjects with animals as their point of departure; ''Kitāb al-Bayān wa-l-tabyīn'' (The book of eloquence and exposition), a wide-ranging work on human communication; and ''Kitāb al-Bukhalāʾ'' (The book of misers), a collection of anecdotes on stinginess. Tradition claims that he was smothered to death when a vast amount of books fell over him. Provided by Wikipedia
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