 | Mission to the Volga Subjects: Tatarstan (Russia) -- Description and travel; Bulgars (Turkic people) -- Russia (Federation) -- Volga River Region -- History; Ibn Fadlan Ahmad active 922 -- Travel -- Asia Central; Volga River Region (Russia) -- History; No detailed description available for "Mission to the Volga". Faḍlān Aḥmad ibn : Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān was a member of a diplomatic mission sent by the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadir in 309-310/921-922 to the king of the Volga Bulghars. His is the only existing record of that mission.Montgomery James E. : James E. Montgomery is Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall. His latest publications are Fate the Hunter: Early Arabic Hunting Poems , and Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice , with Michael Fishbein.Severin Tim : Tim Severin is a British explorer, film-maker, and lecturer. He received the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award for his 1982 non-fiction book The Sindbad Voyage and is noted for his Viking historical fiction series (2005). Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān (Author) |
