Ibn Fadlan's Journey to Russia: A Tenth-Century Traveler from Baghad to the Volga River Giff Constable ISBN13: 9780470226995

ISBN13: 9780470226995

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Ibn Fadlan's Journey to Russia: A Tenth-Century Traveler from Baghad to the Volga River Giff Constable ISBN13: 9780470226995This is the first English translation of the famous Risala, letters by the tenth century traveler Ibn Fadlan, one of the great medieval travelers in world history, akin to Ibn Battuta. Ibn Fadlan was an Arab missionary sent by the Caliph in Baghdad to the king of the Bulghars. He journeyed from Baghdad to Bukhara in Central Asia and then continued across the desert to the town of Bulghar, near present Kazan. He describes the tribes he met on his way