Muslims on the Volga in the Viking Age: Diplomacy and Islam in the World of Ibn Fadlan by Jonathan Shepard, Neil Price, Luke Treadwell

Muslims on the Volga in the Viking Age: Diplomacy and Islam in the World of Ibn Fadlan

Jonathan Shepard, Neil Price, Luke Treadwell

448 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

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In the year 922 a remarkable encounter took place on the wide banks of the Middle Volga. The eyewitness account of Ibn Fadlan, an emissary to the leader of the Bulgars from the far-distant caliphate in Baghdad, vividly describes his meeting with t...

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