Ibn Fadlan and the land of darkness : Arab travellers in the far north /

In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report on his mission he gave a meticulous and astonishingly objective description of Viking customs, dress, table manners, religion and sexual prac...

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Main Author:	Ibn Faḍlān, Aḥmad, active 922
Other Authors:	Lunde, Paul, 1943-, Stone, Caroline
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Language Notes:	Translated from the Arabic into English; glossary in Arabic with English translations.
Published:	London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2012.
Series:	Penguin classics.
Subjects:	Ibn Faḍlān, Aḥmad, > active 922 > Travel > Russia (Federation) > Volga River Region. Ibn Faḍlān, Aḥmad, > active 922 > Travel > Asia, Central. Bulgars (Turkic people) > Russia (Federation) > Volga River Region > History. Volga River Region (Russia) > Description and travel > Early works to 1800. Asia, Central > Description and travel > Early works to 1800. Tatarstan (Russia) > Description and travel > Early works to 1800.

Mission to the Volga /

by Ibn Faḍlān, Aḥmad, active 922
Published 2017

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Riḥlat Ibn Faḍlān : ilá bilād al-Turk wa-al-Rūs wa-al-Ṣaqālibah, 921 /

رحلة ابن فضلان : إلى بلاد الترك والروس والصقالة، 921 /

by Ibn Faḍlān, Aḥmad, active 922
Published 2003

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