He was called the Father of Literature, and yet books killed him! He is Al-Jahiz, the polymath, who used to spend the night in book shops to read them. Who is he and how did his books kill him? That is what we will find out in this video. Who is Al-Jahiz? Abu Othman Amr bin Bahr Al-Kanani, known as Al-Jahiz, is considered one of the most important and famous imams of literature in the Abbasid era.. He has written