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Muslims on the volga in the Viking age : in the footsteps of Ibn Fadlan
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ISBN: 9781784539337 Year: 2023 Publisher: London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing


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Two Arabic Travel Books
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ISBN: 9781479803507 9781479844524 1479844527 9781479800285 1479800287 9781479800285 1479803502 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York, NY

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Two Arabic Travel Books combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experiences. Accounts of China and India is a compilation of reports and anecdotes on the lands and peoples of the Indian Ocean, from the Somali headlands to China and Korea. The early centuries of the Abbasid era witnessed a substantial network of maritime trade—the real-life background to the Sindbad tales. In this account, we first travel east to discover a vivid human landscape, including descriptions of Chinese society and government, Hindu religious practices, and natural life from flying fish to Tibetan musk-deer and Sri Lankan gems. The juxtaposed accounts create a jigsaw picture of a world not unlike our own, a world on the road to globalization. In its ports, we find a priceless cargo of information; here are the first foreign descriptions of tea and porcelain, a panorama of unusual social practices, cannibal islands, and Indian holy men—a marvelous, mundane world, contained in the compass of a novella. In Mission to the Volga, we move north on a diplomatic mission from Baghdad to the upper reaches of the Volga River in what is now central Russia. This colorful documentary by Ibn Fadlan relates the trials and tribulations of an embassy of diplomats and missionaries sent by caliph al-Muqtadir to deliver political and religious instruction to the recently-converted King of the Bulghars. During eleven months of grueling travel, Ibn Fadlan records the marvels he witnesses on his journey, including an aurora borealis and the white nights of the North. Crucially, he offers a description of the Viking Rus, including their customs, clothing, tattoos, and a striking account of a ship funeral. Mission to the Volga is also the earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic—a pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. Together, the stories in Two Arabic Travel Books illuminate a vibrant world of diversity during the heyday of the Abbasid empire, narrated with as much curiosity and zeal as they were perceived by their observant beholders.

Ibn Foszlan's und anderer Araber Berichte über die Russen älterer Zeit
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ISBN: 3871182168 Year: 1976 Publisher: Hamburg Buske

Ibn Fadlan's journey to Russia : a tenth-century traveler from Baghad to the Volga River
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ISBN: 1558763651 155876366X Year: 2005 Publisher: Princeton : Markus Wiener Publishers,


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Mission to the Volga
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ISBN: 1479826693 1479899895 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press,

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The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in ArabicMission to the Volga is a pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its pages, we move north on a diplomatic mission from Baghdad to the upper reaches of the Volga River in what is now central Russia. In this colorful documentary from the tenth century, the enigmatic Ibn Fadlan relates his experiences as part of an embassy sent by Caliph al-Muqtadir to deliver political and religious instruction to the recently-converted King of the Bulghars. During eleven months of grueling travel, Ibn Fadlan records the marvels he witnesses on his journey, including an aurora borealis and the white nights of the North. Crucially, he offers a description of the Viking Rus, including their customs, clothing, body painting, and a striking account of a ship funeral. Together, these anecdotes illuminate a vibrant world of diversity during the heyday of the Abbasid Empire, narrated with as much curiosity and zeal as they were perceived by its observant beholder.

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Bulgars (Turkic people) --- Bolgars (Turkic people) --- Proto-Bulgarians --- Bulgarians --- Ethnology --- Finno-Ugrians --- Turkic peoples --- History. --- Ibn Faḍlān, Aḥmad, --- Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān, --- Ibn-Fadlan, Akhmed, --- İbn Fazlan, --- إبن فضلان، أحمد، --- ابي فضلان --- ابن فضلان، أحمد --- ابن فضلان، أحمد، --- 伊本 怕孜兰, --- Yiben Fazilan, --- 怕孜兰, 伊本, --- Fazilan, Yiben, --- Travel --- Tatarstan (Russia) --- Volga River Region (Russia) --- Respublika Tatarstan (Russia) --- Republic of Tatarstan (Russia) --- Tatarstan Respublikasy (Russia) --- Tatarstan Republic (Russia) --- Pravitelʹstvo Respubliki Tatarstan --- Pravitelʹstvo Respubliki Tatarstan (Russia) --- Татарстан (Russia) --- Республика Татарстан (Russia) --- Татарстан Республикасы (Russia) --- Правительство Республики Татарстан (Russia) --- Tatarstan Respublikası (Russia) --- Republik Tatarstan (Russia) --- Republiek van Tartarstan (Russia) --- تتارستان (Russia) --- Tatāristān (Russia) --- Татаристан (Russia) --- Татарстан Республикаhы (Russia) --- Tatarstan Respublikaḣy (Russia) --- Republika Tatarstan (Russia) --- Татаар Республика (Russia) --- Tataar Respublika (Russia) --- Tatarskai︠a︡ A.S.S.R. (R.S.F.S.R.) --- Description and travel. --- Aḥmad ibn Faz̤lān ibn al-ʻAbbās ibn Rāshid ibn Ḥammād, --- احمد بن فضلان بن العباس بن راشد بن حما

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