Muslims on the Volga in the Viking Age

List of maps
List of illustrations
List of tables and appendices
Preface and acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
List of contributors
Maps
Plates

PART ONE: OVERVIEW

1. Editors' introduction


2. Ibn Fadlan's Kitab: text and afterlife
Viacheslav S. Kuleshov with Jonathan Shepard

PART TWO: TEXT AND CONTEXT

3. Where is the real Ibn Fadlan? Editing and translating the Kitab
James E. Montgomery

4. From Kitab to Risala: the long shadow of Yaqut's version of Ibn Fadlan's account
Luke Treadwell

5. Other Arab geographers' sources on the North: al-Jayhani and the 'Anonymous Relation'
Jean-Charles Ducene

6. Other ethnographies of the steppe
Walter Pohl

7. Other travellers' tales
Ian Wood

PART THREE: BACKGROUND TO THE JOURNEY

8. The Abbasid background
Hugh Kennedy

9. Ibn Fadlan and the Khazars: the hidden centre
Nick Evans

10. Beyond the Gate of the Turks: archaeology around the Aral Sea
Irina Arzhantseva and Heinrich Haerke, with a contribution by Ekaterina A. Armarchuk

PART FOUR: VIKING-AGE RUS

11. Ibn Fadlan and the rituals of the Rus: Vikings on the Volga?
Neil Price

12. Viking-Age markets and emporia
Soren M. Sindbaek

13. Rus, routes and sites
Veronika Murasheva

14. Identities, ethnicities, cultures: Ibn Fadlan and the Rus on the Middle Volga
?orir Jonsson Hraundal

15. Rus and other Northmen under non-Arabic eyes
Jonathan Shepard

PART FIVE: VOLGA BULGARIA

16. What was Volga Bulgaria?
Leonard Nedashkovsky

17. Ninth- and tenth-century Volga Bulgar trade
Evgeniy P. Kazakov

18. Volga Bulgar imitative coinage
Marek Jankowiak

PART SIX: CONCLUSION

19. 'Failure of a mission'?
Jonathan Shepard

List of Reign Dates
List of Alternative Place Names
Glossary
Index

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Rus; Ibn Fadlan; Volga Vikings; Volga Bulgars; Khazars; Byzantine Empire; Abbasid Caliphate; coinage