Mission to the Volga - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mission to the Volga write by Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān. This book was released on 2017-04-04. Mission to the Volga available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic Mission to the Volga is a pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its pages, we move north on a diplomatic mission from Baghdad to the upper reaches of the Volga River in what is now central Russia. In this colorful documentary from the tenth century, the enigmatic Ibn Fadlan relates his experiences as part of an embassy sent by Caliph al-Muqtadir to deliver political and religious instruction to the recently-converted King of the Bulghars. During eleven months of grueling travel, Ibn Fadlan records the marvels he witnesses on his journey, including an aurora borealis and the white nights of the North. Crucially, he offers a description of the Viking Rus, including their customs, clothing, body painting, and a striking account of a ship funeral. Together, these anecdotes illuminate a vibrant world of diversity during the heyday of the Abbasid Empire, narrated with as much curiosity and zeal as they were perceived by its observant beholder. An English-only edition.
Two Arabic Travel Books
Two Arabic Travel Books - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Two Arabic Travel Books write by Tim Mackintosh-Smith. This book was released on 2014-12-08. Two Arabic Travel Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In its ports, we find a priceless cargo of information; here are the first foreign descriptions of tea and porcelain, a panorama of unusual social practices, cannibal islands, and Indian holy men--a marvelous, mundane world, contained in the compass of a novella. In Mission to the Volga, we move north on a diplomatic mission from Baghdad to the upper reaches of the Volga River in what is now central Russia. This colorful documentary by Ibn Fadlan relates the trials and tribulations of an embassy of diplomats and missionaries sent by caliph al-Muqtadir to deliver political and religious instruction to the recently-converted King of the Bulghars. During eleven months of grueling travel, Ibn Fadlan records the marvels he witnesses on his journey, including an aurora borealis and the white nights of the North. Crucially, he offers a description of the Viking Rus, including their customs, clothing, tattoos, and a striking account of a ship funeral.
Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness
Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness write by Ibn Fadlan. This book was released on 2012-07-26. Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report on his mission he gave a meticulous and astonishingly objective description of Viking customs, dress, table manners, religion and sexual practices, as well as the only eyewitness account ever written of a Viking ship cremation. Between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Arab travellers such as Ibn Fadlan journeyed widely and frequently into the far north, crossing territories that now include Russia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Their fascinating accounts describe how the numerous tribes and peoples they encountered traded furs, paid tribute and waged wars. This accessible new translation offers an illuminating insight into the world of the Arab geographers, and the medieval lands of the far north.
Ancient Accounts of India and China
Ancient Accounts of India and China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Accounts of India and China write by Abū Zayd Ḥasan ibn Yazīd Sīrāfī. This book was released on 1733. Ancient Accounts of India and China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Al-Jahiz: In Praise of Books
Al-Jahiz: In Praise of Books - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Al-Jahiz: In Praise of Books write by James E. Montgomery. This book was released on 2013-11-13. Al-Jahiz: In Praise of Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Edinburgh University Press will publish two self-contained guides to reading al-Jahiz that also shed light on his society and its writings. This first volume, 'In Praise of Books', is devoted to bibliomania and al-Jahiz's bibliophilia. Volume 2, In Censure of Books, explores Al-Jahiz's bibliophobia. Al-Jahiz was a bibliomaniac, theologian, and spokesman for the political and cultural elite, a writer who lived, counselled and wrote in Iraq during the first century of the 'Abbasid caliphate. He advised, argued and rubbed shoulders with the major power brokers and leading religious and intellectual figures of his day, and crossed swords in debate and argument with the architects of the Islamic religious, theological, philosophical and cultural canon. His many, tumultuous writings engage with these figures, their ideas, theories and policies. They give us an invaluable but much-neglected window onto the values and beliefs of this cosmopolitan elite.
