Al-Jāhiz is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 83 kilometers. Its name was proposed by astrophysicist David Morrison and adopted by the

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(IAU) in 1976. Al-Jāhiz is named for the Arab writer

Al-Jahiz Abu Uthman Amr ibn Bahr al-Kinani al-Basri (; ), commonly known as al-Jahiz (), was an Arab polymath and author of works of literature (including theory and criticism), theology, zoology, philosophy, grammar, dialectics, rhetoric, philology, lin ...

, who died in Basra, Iraq, in 869 C.E. Lu Hsun crater is southwest of Al-Jāhiz.

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