Mission to the Volga /

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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Main Author: Ibn Faḍlān, Aḥmad, active 922 (Author)
Other Authors: Montgomery, James E. 1962- (Translator), Kennedy, Philip F. (Editor), Tooraw, Shawkat M. (Editor), Severin, Timothy (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Arabic
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2017.
Series:Library of Arabic literature.
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Online Access:CONNECT
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