Muslims on the volga in the Viking age : in the footsteps of Ibn Fadlan /: in the footsteps of Ibn Fadlan. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: [edited by] Jonathan Shepherd and Luke Treadwell.
• Editors: Treadwell, Luke; Shepherd, Jonathan
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Finding Ibn Fadlan -- mission accomplished? / Jonathan Shepard -- Part I. The Bigger Picture. 2. Ibn Fadlan: The Abbasid background / Hugh Kennedy ; 3. Other goings-on: Ibn Fadlan between the North Atlantic and Byzantine worlds / Jonathan Shepard -- Part II. Text and Context. 4. Ibn Fadlan's Kitab : Text and afterlife / Viacheslav Kuleshov ; 5. Where is the real Ibn Fadlan? / James Montgomery ; 6. From Risala to Kitab -- Yaqut's version of Ibn Fadlan's account and its impact on the reception of the Kitab / Luke Treadwell ; 7. Tenth-century Arab geographers' sources on the North: The 'Anonymous Relation' and al-Jayhani / Jean-Charles Ducène -- Part III. Neighbours of the Bulgars, Tall Tales and Otherness. 8. The hidden centre: Ibn Fadlan and the Khazars / Nicholas J. B. Evans ; 9. Beyond the Gate of the Turks: Archaeology of the Aral Sea Region in the late first millennium AD / Irina Arzhantseva and Heinrich H?arke ; 10. Distant peoples: European ethnographies of the steppe / Walter Pohl ; 11. Other travellers' tales / Ian Wood -- Part IV. The Rus: Markets, Routes and Ritual. 12. Vikings on the Volga? Ibn Fadlan and the rituals of the Rus / Neil Price ; 13. Viking-Age markets and emporia / Soren M. Sindbaek ; 14. Rus, routes and sites / Veronika Murasheva ; 15. Ibn Fadlan and the Rus on the Middle Volga: Identities, ethnicities, cultures / Porir Jónsson Hraundal -- Part V. The Meeting Place on the Middle Volga: Material Culture and Trade. 16. What was Volga Bulgaria? / Leonard Nedashkovsky ; 17. The nature and chronology of ninth- and tenth-century Volga Bulgar trade / Evgeniy P. Kazakov ; 18. The Volga Bulgar imitative coinage / Marek Jankowiak ; 19. Hoards with tenth-century dirhams found or published in Eastern Europe in 1990-2014 / Valentin P. Lebedev.
• Publisher Details: London [England] : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2021
• Copyright Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (400 pages)
• Subjects: 947.8; Bulgars (Turkic people) -- Russia (Federation) -- Volga River Region -- History; Northmen -- Russia (Federation) -- Volga River Region -- History; Bulgares (Peuple turc) -- Russie -- Volga, Région de la -- Histoire; Normands -- Russie -- Volga, Région de la -- Histoire; European history; Medieval history; Islam; Bulgars (Turkic people); Northmen; Travel; Volga River Region (Russia) -- Description and travel; Volga, Région de la (Russie) -- Descriptions et voyages; Russia (Federation) -- Volga River Region; History; Travel -- Russia (Federation) -- Volga River Region
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780755618194; 9780755618187; 0755618181
• Related ISBNs: 075561819X; 9781784539337
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.