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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 Rus...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ibn Faḍlān, Aḥmad, active 922 (Author)
Other Authors: Severin, Timothy (writer of foreword.), Tooraw, Shawkat M. (Editor), Kennedy, Philip F. (Editor), Montgomery, James E. (James Edward), 1962- (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Arabic
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Travel.
Bulgars (Turkic people)
TRAVEL > Europe > General.
Bulgares (Peuple turc) > Russie > Volga, Region de la > Histoire.
Ibn Faḍlān, Aḥmad, > active 922 > Travel > Asia, Central.
Bulgars (Turkic people) > Russia (Federation) > Volga River Region > History.
Russia (Federation) > Volga River Region.
Russia (Federation) > Tatarstan.
Central Asia.
Volga River Region (Russia) > History.
Tatarstan (Russia) > Description and travel.
Recits de voyages.
Travel writing.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Letter from the General Editor; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Notes to the Introduction; Map: Ibn Faḍlānʼs Route to the Volga; Mission to the Volga; Baghdad; Bukhara; Khwārazm; Al-Jurjāniyyah; The Ghuzziyyah; The Bajanāk; The Bāshghird; The Bulghārs; The Rūsiyyah; The Khazars; Yāqūt's Quotations from the Book of Ibn Faḍlān; Ibn Faḍlān's Logbook: An Imagined Reconstruction; Notes; Glossary of Names and Terms; Bibliography; Further Reading; Index; About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute; About the Translator

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