>>10984623>>10984619>al-Jahiz was one of the non-Arabs who made up most of the intellectual and scholarly class in that country. He was apparently of African ancestry, as he is described as black and as he wrote Risalat mufakharat al-sudan ‘ala al-bidan (Treatise on the Superiority of Blacks over Whites).Try again. Also he had some not so nice things to say about zanj also in a different writings.
