• ROSTA, ABŪ ʿALĪ AḤMAD b. ʿOmar (d. after 290/903), Persian author of a geographical compendium." Ibn Rustah was identified with the writer ibn Dasta, by Mihály...
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  • 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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  • Rustah may refer to: Rustah, name of a district in Isfahan area in Iran Ahmad ibn Rustah, a tenth-century Persian explorer and geographer Roosta (disambiguation)...
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  • of Tehran (1961–1963) Ahmad Nivins, American basketball player Ahmad ibn Rustah, Persian chronicler born in Isfahan, Persia Ahmad Rashad, American sportscaster...
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  • was used by the Magyars during the conquest of Hungary. According to Ahmad ibn Rustah (c. 930), a Persian explorer and geographer relying on second-hand...
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    could have been the Khazars’ enemy at that time. In the 10th century, Ahmad ibn Rustah wrote that "earlier, the Khazars entrenched themselves against the...
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  • power and prestige by the Arab and Persian geographer Ibn Khordadbeh and explorer Ahmad Ibn Rustah. She rose to power despite feudal kings of coastal-central...
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  • the title of kagan (or qaghan), reported by the Persian geographer Ahmad ibn Rustah, who wrote between 903 and 913. It is believed that the tradition endured...
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    842–873) (or Rurik) in the ninth century. One fringe theory has it that Ahmad ibn Rustah (fl. 10th century) described Walcheren when reporting on the seat of...
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  • was used by Ahmad ibn Fadlan for what was assumed to be Varangians he met by the Volga River, and by the Persian traveler Ahmad ibn Rustah who visited...
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    that time. In the 10th century, a Persian explorer and geographer Ahmad ibn Rustah mentioned that the Khazars entrenched themselves against the attacks...
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  • al-Islami [fa] Ahmad ibn Rustah, 10th-century Persian explorer of Russia, Scandinavia and Arabia Abbas Alizadeh Abbas Amanat Abdolhossein Zarinkoob Ahmad Kasravi...
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    was dangerous work and was often lethal. Slaves. The Muslim writer Ahmad ibn Rustah described how the Viking Rus' had "no cultivated fields and lived by...
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    the 8th century, while the rest, according to the Persian traveller Ahmad ibn Rustah, probably followed the old Tūrkic religion. The ruling stratum, like...
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    pre-Islamic Iran. The 10th century chronicler Ahmad ibn Rustah refers to it as "Sarough" (ساروق). The Fars Nameh of Ibn Balkhi calls it Haft Halkeh (هفت هلکه)...
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    History. Tyskland: Springer International Publishing. p. 161 ibn Rustah, Ahmad (2017). Ibn Rustah és Gardízi (in Hungarian). Translated by Nándor Orbán. Pargas...
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    example by Ahmad ibn Rustah; Badjghird or Bazkirda, such as by al-Mas’udi; Unkalī by al-Tartushi, for instance; and Turk, by sources like ibn Hayyan). One...
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  • Suvars (Savan), the Bersula, and the Barandzhar. Persian ethnographer Ahmad ibn Rustah listed three branches of the Volga Bulghars: "the first branch was...
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    Odin instead.[citation needed] In the 10th century, Persian explorer Ahmad ibn Rustah described funerary rites for the Rus' (Scandinavian Norsemen traders...
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    founded Volga Bulgaria, with Bolghar as its capital. According to Ahmad ibn Rustah (10th century), the Volga Bulgars were divided into three branches:...
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    early Islamic geographical literature, such as the 9th century work of Ahmad ibn Rustah, which describes the islands of "Bratiniya". Muslim scholarship, especially...
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  • voyager-historians like Istakhri, Al-Maqdisi, Al-Masudi, Ahmad ibn Rustah and Ibn Hawqal to encyclopedists like Ibn al-Nadim—describe the temple esp. in the late...
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    restoration and decoration of the mihrab, the minbar, and the maqsurah. Ahmad ibn Rustah described the mosque, following al-Mu'tadid's restoration, as a "fine...
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    Ibn Khurdadhbih also used the term the "island of Bālūs", although the Arabs appeared to consider Bālūs different from Fansur. Around 900 Ahmad ibn Rustah...
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  • Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Jayhani, and therefore these books were sometimes confused with each other. (b) An unknown source also used by Ahmad ibn Rustah, Al-Bakri...
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    Rudanovsky Russian 19th Sakhalin Henry Russell Irish 19th Pyrenees Ahmad ibn Rustah Persian 10th Russia, Scandinavia, Arabia João de Sá Portuguese 15th/16th...
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    Kitāb al-Masālik wal-Mamālik ("Book of Roads and Kingdoms", lost) Ahmad ibn Rustah (10th century) Al-Masudi (896–956): The Meadows of Gold Al-Bakri (c...
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    army is unknown, it is possible to infer it. The Persian geographer Ahmad ibn Rustah, writing between 903 and 920, states it was known the Hungarian ruler...
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  • Bernard the Wise. (PPTS III.4, Runc. Vol I, pp. 43, 345) Ahmad ibn Rustah. Ahmad ibn Rustah (died after 903) was a Persian explorer and geographer who...
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    number. —Al-Battānī, Kitāb az-Zīj. The Kitāb al-Aʿlāq an-Nafīsa of Ahmad ibn Rustah describes the British Isles as the "twelve islands called Jazāʾir Barṭīnīyah"...
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