Kitab al-ḥayawan (English spelling)

…In response to the Persian Shubiyya movement, which attacked traditional Arab culture, he pioneered the genre of anecdotal literature by incorporating ancient Arab poetry and folklore, and brought about the final victory of Arab humanism. By the time he died of illness in Basra, he had written about 200 works, of which only 30 remain in complete copies. His main works include “The Misers,” which satirizes the Persians, “The Book of Eloquence and Clarity,” which explains rhetoric, and “The Book of Animals, Kitab al-ḥayawān,” which later became the basis of ethnology and natural history. [Sato Tsugitaka]…

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Kitāb al-ḥayawān" is listed below.

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…またアラブの伝統文化を攻撃するペルシア人のシュウービーヤ運動に対して，アラブの古詩や伝承を取り入れて逸話文学のジャンルを開拓し，アラブ人文主義に最終的な勝利をもたらした。バスラで病没するまでに書かれた著作は約200点，そのうち現存する完本は30で，主著はペルシア人を風刺した《けちんぼども》，修辞法を説いた《雄弁と明解の書》，後の民族学･博物学の基礎となった《動物の書Kitāb al‐ḥayawān》などである。【佐藤 次高】。…

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