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

by Neil Price

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1784539333

ISBN13:9781784539337

Release Date:September 2023

Publisher:I. B. Tauris & Company

Length:440 Pages

Weight:1.75 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Religion Religion & Spirituality

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