• 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...
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  • Beowulf combined with Ahmad ibn Fadlan's historical account of the Volga Vikings. It stars Antonio Banderas as Ahmad ibn Fadlan, as well as Diane Venora...
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  • Al-Muqtadir, sends his ambassador, Ahmad ibn Fadlan, on a mission to assist the king of the Volga Bulgars. Ahmad ibn Fadlan never arrives, as he is conscripted...
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  • erect a proper mosque. In 922, the caliph al-Muqtadir's ambassador Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān reached Bolghar and met with Almış. The Abbasid caliphate became an...
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  • Muslim jurisprudence Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Abbasid ambassador to the Volga Bulgars Ahmad ibn Tulun, founder of the Tulunid dynasty Ahmad-Jabir Ahmadov, "Honored...
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  • Ahmad ibn Rusta Isfahani (Arabic: احمد ابن رسته اصفهانی, romanized: Aḥmad ibn Rusta Iṣfahānī), more commonly known as ibn Rusta (ابن رسته, also spelled...
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    place between the Rus and the Islamic World. The account written by Ahmad ibn Fadlan about his 921–922 travels from Baghdad to the capital of the First...
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    ISBN 978-1558763661. Ibn Fadlān 2012, p. 49. Ibn Fadlān 2012, p. 50. Ibn Fadlān 2012, pp. 49–52. Ibn Fadlān 2012, p. 51. Ibn Fadlān 2012, pp. 51–52. Ibn Fadlān 2012,...
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    Logan, "in 839, the Rus were Swedes; in 1043 the Rus were Slavs". Ahmad ibn Fadlan, an Arab traveler during the 10th century, provided one of the earliest...
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  • learn the secrets of the runes. The tenth-century Arab Muslim writer Ahmad ibn Fadlan produced a description of a funeral near the Volga River of a chieftain...
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    peoples living between the Baltic Sea and the Black and Caspian Seas. Ahmad ibn Fadlan, for example, describes Almis, king of the Volga Bulgars, as "king...
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  • photographic reproduction of Ibn Fadlān's text in Razawi Library MS 5229.] al-Faqih, Ibn; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad; Aḥmad Ibn Faḍlān; Misʻar Ibn Muhalhil Abū Dulaf al-Khazrajī;...
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  • Muslim and received a caliphal embassy led by Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān. Almış was given the new Muslim name Jaˁfar ibn ˁAbdallāh (i.e., Jaˁfar, son of ˁAbdallāh)...
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    wīsū) in medieval Arab ethnography, so referred to in the works of Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Al-Gharnati, Zakariya al-Qazwini and Yaqut al-Hamawi (in his Dictionary...
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    Zorro Alejandro Murrieta/Zorro Martin Campbell 1999 The 13th Warrior Ahmad ibn Fadlan John McTiernan The White River Kid Morales Pittman Arne Glimcher Play...
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    Arabic account of the Rus' is by the Muslim diplomat and traveller Ahmad ibn Fadlan, who visited Volga Bulgaria in 922, and described people under the...
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  • time as vassals of the Khazars. Indeed, the Khazars were described by Ahmad ibn Fadlan as having an officer titled Kündür which may have been either identical...
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  • visited by the Arab traveler Ahmad ibn Fadlan. After that, no more is known about him; he was succeeded by his son Abu Sa'id Ahmad. Bosworth, C. E. (1984)...
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  • Khujandi, Abu Nasr Mansur, Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Ali Ibn Isa, Al-Karaji (al-Karkhi), Ibn al-Haytham (Book of Optics), Avicenna, Averroes...
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    between the Abbasid Caliphate towards Bukhara (modern Uzbekistan). Ahmad ibn Fadlan, an Arab diplomat and traveller, makes contact with Almış, the İltäbär...
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  • bodies was found in Igbo Ukwu town in Nigeria. 922: Arab traveler Ahmad Ibn Fadlan recorded funeral sacrifice of a female slave of dead Viking ruler in...
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  • Ramadan season of 2007. The series tells the story of the Arab traveler Ahmad ibn Fadlan played by Qais al-Sheikh Najib, with reflections and references to...
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  • Ital. 29 (1): 44–50. PMC 2689568. PMID 19609383. Aḥmad Ibn Faḍlān, Richard Nelson Frye, Ibn Fadlan's journey to Russia: a tenth-century traveler from...
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    outsider sources such as the report on the Rus' made by the Arab traveler Ahmad ibn Fadlan (10th century), the Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum by bishop...
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  • present, too. The Shajara-i Tarākima (unattributed) and writings of Ahmad ibn Fadlan are relied upon for a reconstruction of national history. Some seventy...
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    between Volga, Kama, and Tobol Rivers and upstream of the Yaik river. Ahmad ibn Fadlan, ambassador of the Baghdad Caliph Al-Muqtadir to the governor of Volga...
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  • it required a 40-day journey on "small wagons drawn by large dogs." Ahmad ibn Fadlan Majlisi, Allamah (2016). Hayat Al-Qulub Vol. 1 Stories of the Prophets...
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  • Vladimir Nikolaevich "Archaeological map of Simbirsk province", pp. 8-9 Ahmad Ibn Fadlan 's notes say - The king of Suvar was called Vayrak: 22 Moving bets...
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  • century AD and converted to Islam in 922 during the missionary work of Ahmad ibn Fadlan, inhabited the present-day territory of Tatarstan. After the Batu Khan...
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    Abū’l-Faḍl Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṭalḥa ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn Al-Muqtadir bi'Llāh (Arabic: أبو الفضل جعفر بن أحمد المعتضد بالله) (895 – 31 October...
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