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Ahmad ibn Fadlan ibn al-Abbas al-Baghdadi (Arabic: أحمد بن فضلان بن العباس بن راشد بن حماد, romanized: Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Baghdādī) was a 10th-century traveler from Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate, [a] famous for his account of his travels as a member of an embassy of the Abbasid caliph, al-Muqtadir of Baghdad, to the king of the Volga Bulgars ...
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In 921, the Arab traveler Ahmad ibn Fadlan (fl. 920s) went on a diplomatic mission to what is now Russia. There he encountered numerous Turkic peoples, among them the Khazars, one of the few groups in history outside of Israel to adopt Judaism. But perhaps the most memorable passages in the Risala, his account of his journeys, concern the Varangian...
Ibn Fadlan traveled on orders from al-Muqtadir (r. 908-932), ruler of the Abbasid caliphate. Though by Ibn Fadlan's time the influence of the caliphs—imperial leaders who possessed religious as well as political authority—had declined somewhat, the Abbasid dynasty still remained the single most powerful force east of the Byzantine Empireand west of...
Other than the fact that he was a theologian who served in the court of al-Muqtadir, little is known about Ahmad ibn Fadlan. From certain aspects of his writing style, scholars have guessed that he may not have been an Arab, but there is no certainty on this point. As for the purpose of his journey, it was a diplomatic mission: the actual leader of...
Crichton, Michael. Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922. New York: Ballantine Books, 1993. Dunlop, D. M. The History of the Jewish Khazars. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UniversityPress, 1954. "Risala:Ibn Fadlan's Account of the Rus." http://www.realtime.net/~gunnora/ibn_fdln.htm. The 1...
Apr 3, 2008 · The relationship between Ahmad ibn Fadlan and Beowulf (the etymology of which may be the Arabic name Buliwyf or its variants) is autorised by the fact that Ibn Fadhlan’s account of his North-European travel may have been a source for the old English epic. This link is still to be established firmly on strong historical grounds.
Mar 7, 2022 · By the time the Arab chronicler Ahmed ibn Fadlan was born in the late 9th century, Muslim dynasties such as the Umayyads and the Abbasids ruled over territories stretching from Morocco in the west ...
Oct 19, 2021 · Ahmad ibn Fadlān was born in the capital of the Abbasid caliphate, the recently established cosmopolitan and multicultural city of Baghdad. We know little of his life apart from what he describes in his account of his travels, but he appears to have served as an expert in Islamic theology and law in the court of Caliph Miqtadir (908-932 CE).
The 10th-century travel account of the Abbasid envoy Ibn Fadlan (fl. 921 CE)1 is an underappreciated primary source of Postclassical world history, one that tears the veil from an 1 The most recent translation of Ibn Fadlān is the Penguin publication with commentary: Ahmad Ibn Fadlān, Ibn
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Ahmad ibn Fadlan ibn al-Abbas al-Baghdadi (Arabic: أحمد بن فضلان بن العباس بن راشد بن حماد, romanized: Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Baghdādī) was a 10th-century traveler from Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate, [lower-alpha 1] famous for his account of his travels as a member of an embassy of the Abbasid caliph, al-Muqtadir of Baghdad, to the king of the ...
