Mission to the Volga - (Library of Arabic Literature)

Ahmad ibn Fadlān, Timothy Severin

New York University Press

2017

108 páginas

3h 36m

ISBN-10: 1479899895

Mission to the Volga is the earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic 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 Fa?lan 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.