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),[1] composed by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih (860–940), an Arab writer and poet from Córdoba in Al-Andalus.

The French orientalist Fulgence Fresnel published material on pre-Islamic Arabs in Lettres sur l'histoire des arabes avant l'islamisme 1838, Muhammad Shafi translated material on Mecca and Medina in "A description of the two sanctuaries of Islam by Ibn 'Abd Rabbihi"[3]: xv  in 1922, and the British orientalist and musicologist Henry George Farmer published material on music in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1942, and Arthur Wormhoudt published material on secretaries as "al-Kitaba wal-kuttab from the Aqd al-Farid" in 1988.

[3] al-ʿIqd al-Farīd was translated in full and published in English for the first time by Issa J. Boullata in 2004.

It is an adab book resembling Ibn Qutaybah's `Uyun al-akhbar (The Fountains of Story) and the writings of al-Jahiz from which it borrows largely.

He included in his book his 445-line Urjuza, a poem in the meter of the rajaz in which he narrates the warlike exploits of Abd al-Rahman al-Nasir, along with some of his eulogies of the Umayyads of al-Andalus.