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Hardcover Muslims on the Volga in the Viking Age: In the Footsteps of Ibn Fadlan Book

ISBN: 1784539333

ISBN13: 9781784539337

Muslims on the Volga in the Viking Age: In the Footsteps of Ibn Fadlan

The year 922 saw a series of remarkable face-to-face encounters in the steppes between Bukhara and the Middle Volga. Ibn Fadlan was an intrepid member of a diplomatic and religious mission from the distant caliphate in Baghdad to the ruler of the Volga Bulgars. His account gives a vivid eyewitness description of the peoples he came upon (whose appearance, rituals and filthy habits both fascinate and appal) and a famous depiction of a Viking Rus ship...

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