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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
- 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
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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