Resource: Ahmad Ibn Fadlan

Description

This resource acknowledges the contribution of a 10th century Arab traveller, Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, who travelled as an emissary of the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad to the ruler of the Bulgars, Almiș (see product image), in the Steppe region of modern Russia.

Ibn Fadland was an expert in Islamic law and faith and the Bulgars were newly converted to Islam. Ibn Fadlan left detailed accounts of the Rus people (from which we get the name ‘Russia’) which have been enormously useful to archaeologists and historians and give us a unique insight into 10th century Asia.