It was in the ninth century that the humanist Jahiz (d. 255/869) wrote his treatise Fi Madh al-kutub wa 'l-hathth 'ala jami'iha ('On the Praise of Books and the Promotion of their Collection').
-George Makdisi, The Rise of Humanism in Classical Islam and the Christian West, p. 54
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