Two Arabic Travel Books: Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Abū Zayd Al-Sīrāfī, Aḥmad Ibn Faḍlān, Tim Mackintosh-Smith (Editor)Series:Library of Arabic Literature #17Publish date:2014-12-08Pages:328
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York University PressISBN-13:9781479803507ISBN-10:1479803502UPC:9781479803507Book Category:History, Literary Collections, TravelBook Subcategory:Middle East, Middle Eastern, AsiaBook Topic:India & South AsiaSize:9.30 x 6.30 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SCSN3DX4EQ
Two Arabic Travel Books: Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga
Two Arabic Travel Books combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experiences. Accounts of China and India is a compilation of reports and anecdotes on the lands and peoples of the Indian Ocean, from the Somali headlands to China and Korea. The early centuries of the Abbasid era witnessed a substantial network of maritime...
Series: Library of Arabic Literature #17
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York University PressISBN-13:9781479803507ISBN-10:1479803502UPC:9781479803507Book Category:History, Literary Collections, TravelBook Subcategory:Middle East, Middle Eastern, AsiaBook Topic:India & South AsiaSize:9.30 x 6.30 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SCSN3DX4EQ
Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī (Author)
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. Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān (Author)
Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān was a member of a diplomatic mission sent by the Abbasid caliph...
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. Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān (Author)
Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān was a member of a diplomatic mission sent by the Abbasid caliph...
Publisher: New York University Press
Contributor(s)
Abū Zayd Al-Sīrāfī, Aḥmad Ibn Faḍlān, Tim Mackintosh-Smith (Editor)
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