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Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness by Ibn Fadlan
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Category: Islam
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 practice ...Show more
Mission to the Volga by IBN FADLAN
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Category: Islam | Series: Library of Arabic Literature Ser.
The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic Mission 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 Russia ...Show more
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