Mission to the Volga / / Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān.
The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in ArabicMission 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 Rus...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Library of Arabic Literature ;
28 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Letter from the General Editor
- About this Paperback
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Notes to the Introduction
- Map: Ibn Faḍlānʼs Route to the Volga
- Mission to the Volga
- Yāqūt’s Quotations From The Book of Ibn Faḍlān
- Notes
- Glossary of Names and Terms
- Bibliography
- Further Reading
- Index
- About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
- About the Translator
- The Library of Arabic Literature