Two Arabic Travel Books: Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga / Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī and Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān, translated and edited by Tim Mackintosh‑Smith & James E. Montgomery

Publication details: New York NYU Press 2014Description: 312pISBN: 9781479803507Subject(s): GeographyDDC classification: 915.4 Summary: Bilingual edition pairing two seminal Arabic travel narratives: one describing voyages in the Indian Ocean during the Abbasid era, and another chronicling a diplomatic mission to the Volga River and encounters with Viking Rus. Rich with early global connectivity, ethnographic detail, and maritime culture
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Bilingual edition pairing two seminal Arabic travel narratives: one describing voyages in the Indian Ocean during the Abbasid era, and another chronicling a diplomatic mission to the Volga River and encounters with Viking Rus. Rich with early global connectivity, ethnographic detail, and maritime culture

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