Ibn Abd Rabbihi, Abu Omar Ahmad Ibn Muhammad

Ibn Abd Rabbihi, Abu Omar Ahmad Ibn Muhammad 

Born Nov. 28, 860, in Cordova; died there Mar. 1, 940. Hispano-Arab poet and historian. Eulogist of the Marwanid dynasty.

Ibn Abd Rabbihi received a traditional Muslim education. His few surviving poems are preserved in the Unique Book of Modern Poets by al-Thualibi. In these poems, love themes alternate with ascetic motifs. His well-known prose anthology, A Rare Necklace, consisting of 25 chapters (“jewels”), contains information on the history and literature of the caliphate during the seventh and eighth centuries.

WORKS

al-Aqd al-Farid. Bulak, 1293 A.M. (A.D. 1876); Cairo, 1953.

REFERENCES

Krachkovskii, I. lu. Sobr. soch., vol. 2. Moscow-Leningrad, 1956.
al-Fakhuri, K. Istoriia arabskoi literatury, vol. 2. Moscow, 1961.
Jabbur, J. S. Vmar Ibn Abi Rabi’ah: His Age, Life, and Works, vols. 1–2. Beirut, 1933–35.