Muslims on the Volga in the Viking Age: In the Footsteps of Ibn Fadlan

by Neil Price

The year 922 saw a series of remarkable face-to-face encounters in the steppes between Bukhara and the Middle Volga. Ibn Fadlan was an intrepid member of a diplomatic and religious mission from the distant caliphate in Baghdad to the ruler of the Volga Bulgars. His account gives a vivid eyewitness description of the peoples he came upon (whose appearance, rituals and filthy habits both fascinate and appal) and a famous depiction of a Viking Rus ship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784539333
• ISBN13: 9781784539337
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 440 Pages