• Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Rāshid ibn Ḥammād, (Arabic: أحمد بن فضلان بن العباس بن راشد بن حماد; commonly known as Ahmad ibn Fadlan (or Ibn Foszlan...
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  • Beowulf combined with Ahmad ibn Fadlan's historical account of the Volga Vikings. It stars Antonio Banderas as ibn Fadlan, as well as Diane Venora and...
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    ISBN 978-1558763661. Ibn Fadlān 2012, p. 49. Ibn Fadlān 2012, p. 50. Ibn Fadlān 2012, pp. 49–52. Ibn Fadlān 2012, p. 51. Ibn Fadlān 2012, pp. 51–52. Ibn Fadlān 2012,...
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  • Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in AD 922 (later republished as The 13th Warrior to correspond...
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    requesting religious instruction. Next year an embassy returned with Ibn Fadlan as secretary. A significant number of Muslims already lived in the country...
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    take place between the Rus and the Islamic World. The account written by Ibn Fadlan about his 921–922 travels from Baghdad to the capital of the Bulghar kingdom...
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    Vikings Borg Viking museum, Norway Ibn Fadlan and the Rusiyyah, by James E. Montgomery, with full translation of Ibn Fadlan Reassessing what we collect website...
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  • Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān reached Bolghar and met with Almış. The Abbasid caliphate became an ally of Volga Bulgaria. Almış adopted the Islamic name Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbdallāh...
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    Montgomery, 'Ibn Faḍlān and the Rūsiyyah', Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 3 (2000), 1–25. Archive.org. Includes a translation of Ibn Fadlān's discussion...
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  • photographic reproduction of Ibn Fadlān's text in Razawi Library MS 5229.] al-Faqih, Ibn; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad; Aḥmad Ibn Faḍlān; Misʻar Ibn Muhalhil Abū Dulaf al-Khazrajī;...
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    between Volga, Kama, and Tobol Rivers and upstream of the Yaik river. Ahmad ibn Fadlan, ambassador of the Baghdad Caliph Al-Muqtadir to the governor of Volga...
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    exquisite clothes since they pursue trade with great energy. In 921–922, ibn Fadlan was a member of a diplomatic delegation sent from Baghdad to Volga Bulgars...
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    shelemah)." Persian historian Ibn al-Faqîh wrote that "all the Khazars are Jews, but they have been Judaized recently". Ibn Fadlân, based on his Caliphal mission...
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    Charles the Bald set the death penalty on selling weapons to the Vikings. Ibn Fadlan in the 10th century notes explicitly that the Volga Vikings carried Frankish...
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    early and medieval turkic peoples. Inner Asia, 19(2), 197-239. Ibn Fadlān. "Ibn Fadlān and the Land of Darkness". Translated by Paul Lunde; Caroline Stone...
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  • tenth century, the Arab explorer Ibn Fadlan noted that adultery was unknown among the pagan Oghuz Turks. Ibn Fadlan writes that "adultery is unknown among...
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    wīsū) in medieval Arab ethnography, so referred to in the works of Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Al-Gharnati, Zakariya al-Qazwini and Yaqut al-Hamawi (in his Dictionary...
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    meaning that the ruler held "a reservoir of potential slaves". Traveller Ibn Fadlan (fl. 921–22) called the ruler of Volga Bulgaria the "King of the Saqaliba"...
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    Alejandro Murrieta/Zorro Martin Campbell 1999 The 13th Warrior Ahmad ibn Fadlan John McTiernan The White River Kid Morales Pittman Arne Glimcher Play...
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    History of Russia. Essex: Harlow. ISBN 0-582-49090-1. Fadlan, Ibn (2005). (Richard Frey) Ibn Fadlan's Journey to Russia. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers...
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    10th-century ship burial among the Volga Vikings is given by Arab traveller Ibn Fadlan. The largest Viking ship grave, 65 feet (20 m) long, was discovered in...
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  • and received a caliphal embassy led by Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān. Almış was given the new Muslim name Jaˁfar ibn ˁAbdallāh (i.e., Jaˁfar, son of ˁAbdallāh), which...
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    Arctic regions spans back over a thousand years. During the travels of Ibn Fadlan to Volga Bulgaria, he described how prayer times functioned "during the...
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  • Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas ibn Wuhayb al-Zuhri (Arabic: سَعْد بْنِ أَبِي وَقَّاص بْنِ وهَيْب الزُّهري, romanized: Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ ibn Wuhayb al-Zuhrī) was...
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    made by Aethicus Ister, Iovane Sabanisje, Christian of Stavelot, Ahmad ibn Fadlan, and the Hadith Dhulqarnayn. Mongols and Tartars. This identification...
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  • the snake allegedly survived until the time of Tamerlane's invasion. Ibn Fadlan, who visited Volga Bulgaria in the 10th century, referred to numerous...
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  • ibn Mansur. During his reign, he was visited by the Arab traveler Ahmad ibn Fadlan. After that, no more is known about him; he was succeeded by his son Abu...
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    between the Abbasid Caliphate towards Bukhara (modern Uzbekistan). Ahmad ibn Fadlan, an Arab diplomat and traveller, makes contact with Almış, the İltäbär...
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  • it disappeared. Ibn Fadlan, who visited Volga Bulgaria in the 10th century, referred to numerous snakes, especially in trees. Ibn Fadlan wrote about a huge...
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  • as vassals of the Khazars. Indeed, the Khazars were described by Ahmad ibn Fadlan as having an officer titled Kündür which may have been either identical...
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