Two Arabic Travel Books : : Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga / / Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī, Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān; ed. by Tim Mackintosh-Smith, James E. Montgomery.
Two Arabic Travel Books combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experiences. Accounts of China and India is a compilation of reports and anecdotes on the lands and peoples of the Indian Ocean, from the Somali headlands to C...
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