The bibliography of ʻAmr ibn Baḥr al-Jāḥiẓ (ca. 773 - 869) are the titles listed in chapter five of al-Fihrist of Isḥāq al-Nadīm (d. ca. 998). Most of Chap. V, §1 survives only in the Beatty MS and is published in the English edition by Bayard Dodge (New York, 1970). An incomplete list is found also in the Irshād al-Arīb alā Ma’rifat al-Adīb ('Dictionary of Learned Men') by Yāqūt al-Hamawī (1179-1229).
Published works
Kitāb al-Ḥayawān () ‘Book of the Animal’; in seven sections is dedicated to Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Mālik al-Zayyāt, who paid him 5,000 gold coins (5., dīnār). Kitāb al-Nisā’ () ‘Women’; on differences between the sexes. Appended to al-Ḥayawān. Kitāb al-Bighāl () ‘The Mules’. Al-Nadīm saw these two books written in the handwriting of Zakarīyā’ ibn Yaḥyā ibn Sulaymān, Abū Yaḥyā, who was a warrāq (scribe) of al-Jāḥiẓ. Kitāb al-Ibil () ‘The Camel’; al-Nadīm notes this book did not resemble the style of al-Jāḥiẓ. Kitāb al-Bayān wa-al-Tabyīn () 'The Book of Eloquence and Exposition'; dedicated to Ibn Abī Dā’ūd, who paid him 5,000 gold coins. Kitāb al-Zar’ wa-al-Nakhl () 'The Book of Sowing and the Palm Tree’; dedicated to Ibrāhīm ibn ‘Abbās al-Ṣūlī, who paid him 5,000 gold coins.