TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Muslims on the Volga in the Viking Age : in the footsteps of Ibn Fadlan
T2  - Library of Medieval studies
A2  - Shepherd, Jonathan, toimittaja
A2  - Treadwell, Luke toimittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - London
PB  - I.B. Tauris
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5702238
AB  - The year 922 saw a series of remarkable face-to-face encounters in the steppes between Bukhara and the Middle Volga. Ibn Fadlan was an intrepid member of a diplomatic and religious mission from the distant caliphate in Baghdad to the ruler of the Volga Bulgars. His account gives a vivid eyewitness description of the peoples he came upon (whose appearance, rituals and filthy habits both fascinate and appal) and a famous depiction of a Viking Rus ship burial. It is unique testimony to burgeoning exchanges between several different cultures, and to the emergence of new political structures on the steppes. Yet the account survives only as part of a later composite work, raising questions of meaning and historical interpretation. This pioneering interdisciplinary study of Ibn Fadlan's text and the world he surveyed draws on a variety of specialists to give readers both 'the bigger picture' of cultural and economic change in Eurasia, Byzantium and the Muslim world, and hard facts, in the form of archaeological and numismatic data. --
SN  - 9781784539337 kovakantinen
KW  - Ibn Faḍlān, Aḥmad, : active 922 : Travel : Russia (Federation) : Volga River Region.
KW  - Bulgars (Turkic people) : Russia (Federation) : Volga River Region : History.
KW  - Northmen : Russia (Federation) : Volga River Region : History.
KW  - arabit
KW  - bolgaarit
KW  - rusit
KW  - viikinkiaika
KW  - kulttuurikosketukset
KW  - matkakertomukset
KW  - araber
KW  - bolgarer
KW  - ruser
KW  - vikingatiden
KW  - kulturkontakter
KW  - reseberättelser
KW  - Volga River Region (Russia) : Description and travel : Early works to 1800.
KW  - Volgan Bulgaria
KW  - Venäjä
KW  - Volga
KW  - Ryssland
ER  -