![]() | Two Arabic Travel Books: Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga Subjects: India -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; China -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; Volga River Region (Russia) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; No detailed description available for "Two Arabic Travel Books". al-Sīrāfī Abū Zayd : Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī was a seafarer who moved from the Persian port-city of Siraf to Basra in 303/915-916. He wrote the second half of Accounts of China and India , supplementing an earlier section written by an unknown mariner and merchant fifty years earlier.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.Mackintosh-Smith Tim : Tim Mackintosh-Smith is a noted British travel author, best known for his trilogy on the renowned Moroccan world-traveler Ibn Baṭṭūṭah, which earned him a spot among Newsweek 's top twelve travel writers of the past hundred years. Since 1982, he has lived in Sanaa, Yemen.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. Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī (Author) |
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