جذور الأدب المقارن في كتابات الجاحظ

الملخص EN

Arabic literature has been influenced by other literature and cultures since the Abbasid era.

And some personalities like Al-Jahiz, who lived in this cultural context, paid attention to it, which aroused in him an interest in the comparison of the cultural and literary relations between the four most famous nations at the time, namely the Greeks, Romans, Indians, and ArHe also deepened in comparison within the framework of national literature more than others, going beyond poetry to reveal other forms and types of Intertextual Relationships that no one had paid attention to before him, and some of them are not even mentioned by subsequent critics.

This research explores these matters in the light of comparative literature with its modern concepts.

To what extent did Al-Jahiz practice comparative literature? And to what extent did he approach his modern investigations?