Not to be confused with Ibn Battuta, Ibn Khaldun, or Ibn Saud.
10th-century Arab traveller and ethnographer
Ahmad ibn Fadlan
Born
Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
Theological work
Era
Islamic golden age
Main interests
Islamic jurisprudence
Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Rāshid ibn Ḥammād, (Arabic: أحمد بن فضلان بن العباس بن راشد بن حماد; commonly known as Ahmad ibn Fadlan (or Ibn Foszlan in older European literature), was a 10th-century Arab traveler,[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, known as his risāla ("account" or "journal").[b]
His account is most notable for providing a detailed description of the Volga Vikings, including eyewitness accounts of life as part of a trade caravan and witnessing a ship burial.[4] He also notably described the lifestyle of the Oghuz Turks while the Khazaria, Cumans, and Pechnegs were still around.[5]
Ibn Fadlan's detailed writings have been cited by numerous historians. They have also inspired entertainment works, including Michael Crichton's novel Eaters of the Dead and its film adaptation The 13th Warrior.[6]
^Knight 2001, pp. 32–34.
^Frye 2005, p. 8.
^Lunde & Stone 2011, p. xiii.
^Perry 2009: "...left a unique geo-historical and ethnographic record of the northern fringes of 10th-century Eurasia." See also Gabriel 1999, pp. 36–42.
^Curta, Florin (2019). Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages (500-1300) (2 Vols). Boston: BRILL. p. 152. ISBN 978-90-04-39519-0. OCLC 1111434007.
^"Saudi Aramco World : Among the Norse Tribes: The Remarkable Account of Ibn Fadlan". archive.aramcoworld.com. Retrieved 2020-09-11.
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AḥmadibnFaḍlānibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Rāshid ibn Ḥammād, (Arabic: أحمد بن فضلان بن العباس بن راشد بن حماد; commonly known as AhmadibnFadlan (or Ibn Foszlan...
Al-Muqtadir, sends his ambassador, AhmadibnFadlan, on a mission to assist the king of the Volga Bulgars. AhmadibnFadlan never arrives, as he is conscripted...
Muslim jurisprudence AhmadibnFadlan, Abbasid ambassador to the Volga Bulgars Ahmadibn Tulun, founder of the Tulunid dynasty Ahmad-Jabir Ahmadov, "Honored...
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Ahmadibn Rustah Isfahani (Persian: احمد ابن رسته اصفهانی Aḥmadibn Rusta Iṣfahānī), more commonly known as Ibn Rustah (ابن رسته, also spelled Ibn Rusta...
wīsū) in medieval Arab ethnography, so referred to in the works of AhmadibnFadlan, Al-Gharnati, Zakariya al-Qazwini and Yaqut al-Hamawi (in his Dictionary...
visited by the Arab traveler AhmadibnFadlan. After that, no more is known about him; he was succeeded by his son Abu Sa'id Ahmad. Bosworth, C. E. (1984)...
take place between the Rus and the Islamic World. The account written by IbnFadlan about his 921–922 travels from Baghdad to the capital of the Bulghar kingdom...
al-Khujandi, Abu Nasr Mansur, Abu al-Wafa, AhmadibnFadlan, Al-Muqaddasi, Ali Ibn Isa, and al-Karaji (al-Karkhi). Ibn al-Haytham (Book of Optics), Avicenna...
between the Abbasid Caliphate towards Bukhara (modern Uzbekistan). AhmadibnFadlan, an Arab diplomat and traveller, makes contact with Almış, the İltäbär...
time as vassals of the Khazars. Indeed, the Khazars were described by AhmadibnFadlan as having an officer titled Kündür which may have been either identical...
Zorro Alejandro Murrieta/Zorro Martin Campbell 1999 The 13th Warrior AhmadibnFadlan John McTiernan The White River Kid Morales Pittman Arne Glimcher Play...
al-Majus مجوس), conflating them with Zoroastrians from Persia. When AhmadibnFadlan encountered Vikings on the Volga, he referred to them as Rus. The Franks...
join and be assimilated into the Volga Bulgars) who were mentioned by AhmadibnFadlan after visiting Volga region in 921–922. They also were mentioned by...
outsider sources such as the report on the Rus' made by the Arab traveler AhmadibnFadlan (10th century), the Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum by bishop...
Scandinavia, and Frankish arms became the standard for all Vikings. As AhmadibnFadlan observed in his account of his journey to Russia, every Viking carried...
present, too. The Shajara-i Tarākima (unattributed) and writings of AhmadibnFadlan are relied upon for a reconstruction of national history. Some seventy...
was made by Aethicus Ister, Iovane Sabanisje, Christian of Stavelot, AhmadibnFadlan, and the Hadith Dhulqarnayn. Mongols and Tartars. This identification...
environmental science al-Hamdani Ibn Al-Jazzar Al-Tamimi Al-Masihi Ali ibn Ridwan Muhammad al-Idrisi, also a cartographer AhmadibnFadlan Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī,...
century AD and converted to Islam in 922 during the missionary work of AhmadibnFadlan, inhabited the present-day territory of Tatarstan. After the Batu Khan...
Scandinavia, and Frankish arms became the standard for all Vikings. As AhmadibnFadlan observed in his account of his journey to Russia, every Viking carried...
civibus (concerning languages, peoples, realms, war and cities). AhmadibnFadlan in the 10th century gives an account of the Bolghar and the Rus' peoples...
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