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Ibn Fadlan and the land of darkness : Arab travellers in the far north / Ibn Fadlan ; translated with an introduction by Paul Lunde and Caroline Stone.
- Title
- Ibn Fadlan and the land of darkness : Arab travellers in the far north / Ibn Fadlan ; translated with an introduction by Paul Lunde and Caroline Stone.
- Author
- Ibn Faḍlān, Aḥmad, active 922
- Publication
- London : Penguin, 2012.
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- Description
- xxxvii, 239 p. : maps; 20 cm.
- Summary
- "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 practices, as well as the only eyewitness account ever written of a Viking ship cremation. Between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Arab travellers such as Ibn Faḍlān journeyed widely and frequently into the far north, crossing territories that now include Russia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Their fascinating accounts describe how the numerous tribes and peoples they encountered traded furs, paid tribute and waged wars. This accessible new translation offers an illuminating insight into the world of the Arab geographers, and the medieval lands of the far north"--
- Series Statement
- Penguin classics
- Uniform Title
- Kitāb ilá malik al-Ṣaqālibah. English
- Penguin classics
- Alternative Title
- Kitāb ilá malik al-Ṣaqālibah.
- Subject
- Ibn Faḍlān, Aḥmad, active 922 > Travel > Volga River Region
- Ibn Faḍlān, Aḥmad, active 922 > Travel > Asia, Central
- 900-talet
- Geschichte 900-1400
- Geschichte 922
- Bulgars (Turkic people) > 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
- Genre/Form
- Sources
- Early works
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-221)
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Arabic into English; glossary in Arabic with English translations.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Pt. I. The Book of Ahmad ibn Fadlān 921-922 -- pt. II. The Travels of Abū Hāmid al-Andalusī al-Gharnātī 1130-1155 -- pt. III. Passages from Other Geographers, Historians and Travellers.
- ISBN
- 9780140455076 (pbk.) :
- 0140455078 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 769191032
- SCSB-11606377
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library