Ibn Abd Rabbih

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Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih (

Arabic: ابن عبد ربه) or Ibn ʿAbd Rabbihi (Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn `Abd Rabbih) (860–940) was an Arab[1] writer and poet widely known as the author of Al-ʿIqd al-Farīd
(The Unique Necklace).

Biography

He was born in

Umayyad emir. He enjoyed a great reputation for learning and eloquence.[2][3]
Not much is known about his life. According to Isabel Toral-Niehoff,

He came from a local family whose members had been clients (mawālī) of the Umayyads since the emir Hishām I (788–796). His teachers were

Mālikī
fuqahāʼ and
ʻAbd al-Raḥmān III (912–961).[4]

Works

Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih was a friend of many Umayyad princes and was employed as an official panegyrist at the Umayyad court.[5] No complete collection of his poems is extant, but many selections are given in the Yatima al-Dahr[2] and Nafh al-Tip.[6]

More widely known than his poetry is his great anthology, the

Abd al-Rahman al-Nasir, along with some of his eulogies of the Umayyads of al-Andalus.[9]

books

Ibn Abd Rabbih’s book, Al-Iqd Al-Fareed, is one of the best known of such literary selections. It is a treasury of the fines sort. The title means, The Unique Necklace. Ibn Abd Rabbih’s conception of his book is that it is a necklace made of 25 fine jewels, 12 pairs and a larger middle one. Under each one of these jewels he includes poetry, proverbs, anecdotes, fine prose, etc. speaking about the same topic. Yet the two topics of a pair of jewels need not have anything in common. Thus the first pearl speaks about government and governors, while the second pearl is devoted to anecdotes and funny incidents.

References

Arabic Wikisource has original text related to this article:
  1. ^ "Ibn Abd Rabbih - LAROUSSE".
  2. ^ a b c  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Thatcher, Griffithes Wheeler (1911). "Ibn 'Abd Rabbihi". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 14 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 219.
  3. ^ Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary
  4. ^ Isabel Toral-Niehoff, 'The "Book of the Pearl on the Ruler" in The Unique Necklace by Ibn ʻAbd Rabbih: Preliminary Remarks', https://www.academia.edu/7399721, pp. 134-51.
  5. ^ L. Alvarez. (1998). Ibn `Abd Rabbih. In Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature (Vol. 1, pp. 302-303). Taylor & Francis.
  6. ISBN 1-85964-184-9
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  7. ^ L. Alvarez, 1998.
  8. ^ William Montgomery Watt, Pierre Cachia. (1996)A History of Islamic Spain. p. 73. Edinburgh University Press.
  9. ^ Boullata ,2007

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