Al-ʿIqd al-Farīd

Al-ʿIqd al-Farīd
Al-ʿIqd al-Farīd 1346
AuthorIbn ʿAbd Rabbih
Original titleالعقد الفريد
LanguageArabic
SubjectAdab (literature and culture)
GenreAnthology
Publication date
10th century
Publication placeAl-Andalus (modern-day Spain)
Media typePrint

al-ʿIqd al-Farīd (The Unique Necklace, Arabic: العقد الفريد) is an anthology attempting to encompass 'all that a well-informed person had to know in order to pass in society as a cultured and refined individual' (or adab), composed by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih (860–940), an Arab writer and poet from Córdoba in Al-Andalus.