| The Unique Necklace: Al-'Iqd Al-Farid, Volume II Contributor(s): Al-Farid, Al-'Iqd (Author), Boullata, Issa J. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1859641962 ISBN-13: 9781859641965 Publisher: Garnet Publishing OUR PRICE: $85.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2009 Annotation: Al-'Iqd al-Farid (The Unique Necklace) is one of the classics of Arabic literature. Compiled in several volumes by an Andalusian scholar and poet named Ibn 'Abd Rabbih (246-328 A.H. / 860-940 C.E.), it remains a wealth of information about various element |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Islamic Studies - Literary Criticism | Middle Eastern - Literary Criticism | Medieval |
| Dewey: 492.77 |
| LCCN: 2007532741 |
| Series: Great Books of Islamic Civilization |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.7" W x 9.5" (1.85 lbs) 340 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Al-'Iqd al-Farid (The Unique Necklace) is one of the classics of Arabic literature. Compiled in several volumes by an Andalusian scholar and poet named Ibn 'Abd Rabbih (246-328 A.H. / 860-940 C.E.), it remains a wealth of information about various elements of Arab culture and letters during the four centuries before Ibn 'Abd Rabbih's 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 becoming a chaotic jumble of materials by conceiving of it as a necklace composed of 25 'books, ' each of which carried the name of a jewel. Each of the 25 '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.' Volume I of this translation of al-'Iqd al-Farid contained four of its 25 'books.' The present volume, Volume II, contains two more. |