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Two Arabic Travel Books : Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga /
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 C...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Arabic |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Two Arabic Travel Books : |b Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga / |c Abu Zayd al-Sirafi ; edited and translated by Tim Mackintosh-Smith ; Mission to the VolgaIbn Fadlan ; edited and translated by James E. Montgomery. |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b New York University Press, |c 2015. | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2016 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2015. | |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Accounts of China and India / Abū Zayd Al-Sīrāfī ; edited and translated by Tim Mackintosh-Smith -- Mission to the Volga / Aḥmad Ibn Faḍlān ; edited and translated by James E. Montgomery. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 546 | |a In English and Arabic. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 651 | 7 | |a Ryssland |z Volgaregionen. |2 sao | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Wolga-Gebiet |2 gnd | |
| 651 | 7 | |a China |2 gnd | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Indien |2 gnd | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Russia (Federation) |z Volga River Region. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01242878 | |
| 651 | 7 | |a India. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01210276 | |
| 651 | 7 | |a China. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01206073 | |
| 651 | 6 | |a Volga, Region de la (Russie) |x Descriptions et voyages |v Ouvrages avant 1800. | |
| 651 | 6 | |a Chine |x Descriptions et voyages |v Ouvrages avant 1800. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Volga River Region (Russia) |x Description and travel |v Early works to 1800. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a China |x Description and travel |v Early works to 1800. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a India |x Description and travel |v Early works to 1800. | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a Reiseliteratur |2 gnd | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Travel. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01155558 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a HISTORY |z Middle East |x General. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a TRAVEL |z Asia |x General. |2 bisacsh | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Early works. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01411636 | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Electronic books. |2 local | |
| 700 | 1 | 2 | |a Ibn Faḍlān, Aḥmad, |d active 922. |t Kitāb ilá malik al-Ṣaqālibah. |l English. |
| 700 | 1 | 2 | |a Ibn Faḍlān, Aḥmad, |d active 922. |t Kitāb ilá malik al-Ṣaqālibah. |
| 700 | 1 | 2 | |a Sīrāfī, Abū Zayd Ḥasan ibn Yazīd, |d active 10th century. |t Silsilat al-tawārīkh. |l English. |
| 700 | 1 | 2 | |a Sīrāfī, Abū Zayd Ḥasan ibn Yazīd, |d active 10th century. |t Silsilat al-tawārīkh. |
| 700 | 1 | |a Montgomery, James E. |q (James Edward), |d 1962- |e editor. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Mackintosh-Smith, Tim, |d 1961- |e editor. | |
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| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2014 Middle Eastern Studies Supplement | ||