Mission to the Volga
$47.17
- Paperback
108 pages
- Release Date
3 April 2017
Summary
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. In this colorful documentary from the tenth century, the enigmatic Ibn Fadlan relates his experiences as part of an embassy sent by Caliph al-Muqtadir to deliver political and religious i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781479899890 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1479899895 |
| Series: | Library of Arabic Literature |
| Author: | Tim Severin, James E. Montgomery, Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān |
| Publisher: | New York University Press |
| Imprint: | New York University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 108 |
| Release Date: | 3 April 2017 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm |
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“Montgomery’s edition…is itself the product of many years’ research, travel, and discussion and should become definitive.”
Montgomery’s edition…is itself the product of many years’ research, travel, and discussion and should become definitive. (Speculum) A compelling account which is, among other things, the earliest first-hand description of travel from the Muslim world. (Times Literary Supplement)
About The Author
Tim Severin
Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān (Author) Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān was a member of a diplomatic mission sent by the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadir in 309-310⁄921-922 to the king of the Volga Bulghars. His is the only existing record of that mission. Tim Severin (Foreword by) Tim Severin is a British explorer, film-maker, and lecturer. He received the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award for his 1982 non-fiction book The Sindbad Voyage and is noted for his Viking historical fiction series (2005). James E. Montgomery (Translator) James E. Montgomery is Sir Thomas Adams’s Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall. His latest publications are In Deadly Embrace: Arabic Hunting Poems, Fate the Hunter: Early Arabic Hunting Poems, and Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice, with Michael Fishbein. In 2024 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy.
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