The book "Al-Taj by Al-Jahiz" in your hands includes chapters that discuss kings and their conditions in some detail. From mentioning their drinking companions and dining with them, to listing the characteristics of companions and what kings should do with their subjects in terms of good manners, in both joking and serious situations, to reviewing the types of hadiths and anecdotes, Al-Jahiz, the unique writer, draws them from the news of historians and narrators, moving between the characteristics of kings and their people, in different countries, commenting on each story in his own style and his scrutinizing analysis, which directly painted a picture of the societies of his time within a special literary framework.
Al-Jahiz discussed in detail the kings of the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphs and the characteristics that distinguished each one of them, so that the book can be described as a comprehensive history of the news of the Umayyad and Abbasid states, and the anecdotes, stories and narratives that surround that news. As in all of Al-Jahiz’s works, the book is distinguished by the brilliance of its language, the precision of its organization and the care of its words, which makes it an immortal literary book that preserves the brilliance of the Arabic language and presents a dazzling image of Arabic literature through one of his creative masterpieces.
