Ibn Abd Rabbih

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Ibn Abd Rabbih or Ibn Abd Rabbihi (Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn `Abd Rabbih) (860-940) was an Arab poet. He was born in Cordova, now in Spain, and descended from a freed slave of Hisham I, the second Spanish Umayyad emir. He enjoyed a great reputation for learning and eloquence. No collection of his poems is extant, but many selections are given in the Yatima al-Dahr.

More widely known than his poetry is his great anthology, the `Iqd al-Farid (The Precious Necklace), a work divided into 25 sections. The 13th section is named the middle jewel of the necklace, and the chapters on either side are named after other jewels. It is an adab book resembling Ibn Qutaybah's `Uyun al-akhbar, from which it borrows largely.

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