Kitāb al-ʻiqd al-farīd is a history & biography first published in 1940 by the mid-20th-century author Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn ʻAbd Rabbih. Indexed in KitabiHub under History & Biography, Literary Criticism, The Arab World, Modern Arabic Fiction, it sits alongside other history & biography on the same shelf.
Like much of the Arabic literary tradition, Kitāb al-ʻiqd al-farīd rewards close reading: its rhythms reach back to a thousand years of poetry and rhetoric, while its concerns — exile, memory, the city, the desert, the relationship between the writer and the political moment — speak directly to the present. Readers approaching the book without prior background will find the description above a useful entry point; those already familiar with Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn ʻAbd Rabbih's work will recognise the recurring preoccupations.
This page is part of the KitabiHub catalogue of Arabic-language literature. From here you can follow the author link to see Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn ʻAbd Rabbih's full bibliography on the site, jump to any of the categories above to browse adjacent works, or return to the main library to keep exploring. Cover image and bibliographic metadata are sourced from the open catalogues described on our sources page.
If you found this record useful, KitabiHub indexes hundreds more titles across novels, poetry, short fiction, drama, and essays — all originally written in Arabic, all by Arab authors. The catalogue is rebuilt regularly so newly-indexed titles upstream eventually appear here too.
About the author
Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn ʻAbd Rabbih is part of the long Arabic literary tradition catalogued on KitabiHub. Their work appears alongside the great voices of the Nahda renaissance, the Cairo realists of the mid-twentieth century, and the new generation of writers from across the Arab world.
→ See the full bibliography of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn ʻAbd Rabbih
