On the Arabic Bookshelf

al-Bayan wa al-Tabyeen

al-Bayaan wa al-Tabyeen by al-Jaahidh الجاحظ The author is Abu ‘Uthman ‘Amr ibn Bahr ibn Mahbub al-Kinaa’ee, known as al-Jaahidh (d. 255 Hijri). He was born in Basrah, and among his teachers were Abu ‘Ubaydah, Abu Zayd al-Ansari, and al-Akhfash. He was a brilliant polymath who wrote on many subjects including Philosophy, ‘Aqeedah, Politics, Economics, …

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The Arabic library

al-Salāmu ‘alaykum wa rahmatullāh, In classical times, students of knowledge would be given speific lessons that familiarised them with the most important classical books in our heritage on various subjects such as fiqh, tafseer, Arabic, 'aqeedah, and so on. This tradition even continued it seems right up until the previous generation, where students of Arabic …

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