Muslims on the volga in the viking age : diplomacy and Islam in the world of Ibn Fadlan / edited by Jonathan Shepherd and Luke Treadwell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shepard, Jonathan, editor.

Treadwell, Luke, editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

Library of medieval studies

Library of Medieval studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Russia (Federation)--Volga-Ural Region--History.

Islam.

Ibn Faḍlān, Aḥmad, active 922--Travel--Russia (Federation)--Volga River Region.

Ibn Faḍlān, Aḥmad.

Bulgars (Turkic people)--Russia (Federation)--Volga River Region--History.

Bulgars (Turkic people).

Northmen--Russia (Federation)--Volga River Region--History.

Northmen.

Volga River Region (Russia)--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Volga River Region (Russia).

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 pages).

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2023.

System Details:

text file HTML

Contents:

List of maps

List of illustrations

List of tables and appendices

Preface and acknowledgements

List of abbreviations List of contributors

Maps Plates

PART 1. OVERVIEW

1. Editors' introduction

2. Ibn Fadlan's Kitab: text and afterlife / Viacheslav S. Kuleshov with Jonathan Shepard

PART 2. TEXT AND CONTEXT

3. Where is the real Ibn Fadlan? Editing and translating the Kitab / James E. Montgomery

4. From Kitab to Risala: the long shadow of Yaqut's version of Ibn Fadlan's account / Luke Treadwell

5. Other Arab geographers' sources on the North: al-Jayhani and the 'Anonymous Relation' / Jean-Charles Duc̈ne

6. Other ethnographies of the steppe / Walter Pohl

7. Other travellers' tales / Ian Wood

PART 3. BACKGROUND TO THE JOURNEY

8. The Abbasid background / Hugh Kennedy

9. Ibn Fadlan and the Khazars: the hidden centre / Nick Evans

10. Beyond the Gate of the Turks: archaeology around the Aral Sea / Irina Arzhantseva and Heinrich H̃rke, with a contribution by Ekaterina A. Armarchuk

PART 4. VIKING-AGE RUS

11. Ibn Fadlan and the rituals of the Rus: Vikings on the Volga? / Neil Price

12. Viking-Age markets and emporia / Søren M. Sindbæk

13. Rus, routes and sites / Veronika Murasheva

14. Identities, ethnicities, cultures: Ibn Fadlan and the Rus on the Middle Volga / Þ̤rir J̤nsson Hraundal

15. Rus and other Northmen under non-Arabic eyes / Jonathan Shepard

PART 5. VOLGA BULGARIA 16. What was Volga Bulgaria? / Leonard Nedashkovsky

17. Ninth- and tenth-century Volga Bulgar trade / Evgeniy P. Kazakov

18. Volga Bulgar imitative coinage Marek Jankowiak

PART 6. CONCLUSION

19. 'Failure of a mission'? / Jonathan Shepard

List of Reign

Dates

List of Alternative Place Names

Glossary

Index.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

ISBN:

9780755618194

075561819X

9780755618170

0755618173

9780755618187

0755618181

Publisher Number:

40032045466

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