Muslims on the Volga in the Viking age : diplomacy and Islam in the world of Ibn Fadlan / edited by Jonathan Shepherd and Luke Treadwell.
The year 922 saw a series of remarkable face-to-face encounters in the steppes between Bukhara and the Middle Volga. Ibn Fadlan was an intrepid member of a diplomatic and religious mission from the distant caliphate in Baghdad to the ruler of the Volga Bulgars. His account gives a vivid eyewitness d...
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London :
I.B. Tauris,
2023.
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| Series: | Library of medieval studies.
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