Mission to the Volga / by Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān ; translated by James E. Montgomery ; foreword by Tim Severin ; volume editor, Shawkat M. Toorawa.
"Mission to the Volaga is the oldest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic--a pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value ... In this colorful documentary from the tenth century, the enigmatic Ibn Fadlan relates his experiences as part of an embas...
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| Other title: | Kitāb ilá malik al-Ṣaqālibah. English |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Arabic |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Library of Arabic literature.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Map: Ibn Fadlan's route to the Volga
- Mission to the Volga. Baghdad ; Bukhara ; Khwarazm ; Al-jurjaniyyah ; The Ghuzziyyah; The Bajanak ; The Bashghird ; The Bulghars ; The Rüsiyyah ; The Khazars
- Yaqüt's quotations from the book of Ibn Fadlan
- Ibn Fadlan's logbook: an imagined reconstruction.