The unique necklace = Al-ʻIqd al-farīd /

The unique necklace = Al-ʻIqd al-farīd /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ibn ʻAbd Rabbih, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 860-940.
Uniform title:	ʻIqd al-farīd. English
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	Reading, UK : Garnet Pub., c2006-c2011.
Description:	3 v. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Great books of Islamic civilization Great books of Islamic civilisation.
Subject:	Ibn ʻAbd Rabbih, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -- 860-940 -- Translations into English. Ibn ʻAbd Rabbih, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -- 860-940. -- Al-ʻIqd al-Farīd. Ibn ʻAbd Rabbih, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -- 860-940. Islamic civilization -- History -- Sources. Islamic civilization. History. Sources. Translations.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6417845

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Al-ʻIqd al-farīd ʻIqd al-farīd
Other authors / contributors:	Boullata, Issa J., 1929- Centre for Muslim Contribution to Civilization.
ISBN:	1859641830 9781859641835 9781859641965 (v. 2) 1859641962 (v. 2) 9781859642399 (v. 3) 185964239X (v. 3) 9781859641842 (v. 1) 1859641849 (v. 1)
Notes:	At head of title: The Center for Muslim Contribution to Civilization. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Includes bibliographical references (p. xxiii-xxiv, v. 1) and indexes. Also issued online. Translated from Arabic.
Summary:	"Al-Iqd al-Farid (The Unique Necklace), translated now for the first time into English, is one of the classics of Arabic literature. Compiled in several volumes by an Andalusian scholar and poet named Ibn `Abd Rabbih (246-328 H./860-940 C.E.), it remains a mine of information about various elements of Arab culture and letters during the four centuries before his death. Essentially it is a book of adab, a term understood in modern times to specifically mean literature but in earlier times its meaning included all that a well-informed person had to know in order to pass in society as a cultured and refined individual. This meaning later evolved and included belles letters in the form of elegant prose and verse that was as much entertaining as it was morally educational such as poetry, pleasant anecdotes, proverbs, historical accounts, general knowledge, wise maxims, and even practical philosophy. Ibn `Abd Rabbih's imagination and organization saved his encyclopedic compendium from easily being a chaotic jumble of materials by conceiving of it as a necklace composed of twenty-five 'books', each of which carried the name of a jewel. Each of the twenty-five 'books' was organized around a major theme and had an introduction written by Ibn `Abd Rabbih, followed by his relevant adab selections of verse and prose on the theme of the 'book'. He drew on a vast repertoire of sources including the Bible, the Qur'an, and the "Hadith", and the works of al-Jahiz, Ibn Qutayba, al-Mubarrad, Abu `Ubayda ibn al-Muthanna and several others, and the diwans of many Arab poets, including his own poetry which is why "The Unique Necklace" is a standard text for those interested in classical Arabic literature."--Jacket.
Other form:	Online version: Ibn ʻAbd Rabbih, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 860-940. ʻIqd al-farīd. English. Unique necklace. 1st ed. Reading, UK : Garnet Pub., c2006-

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