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Index
Title Page
Contents
List of Maps
About the Author
Dedication
Chronology
Introduction
Note on the Texts
Maps
Ibn Fadlān and the Land of Darkness
Part I
Part II
Part III
1. Qudāma ibn Ja‘far on Alexander in China 928–932
2. Ibn Khurradādhbih on Sallām the Interpreter and Alexander’s Wall 844
3. Ibn Hayyān on the Viking attack on Seville 844
4. Zuhrī on Viking ships c. 1160
5. Ibn Khurradādhbih on the routes of the Rādhānīya and the Rūs c. 830
6. Ibn al-Faqīh on the Rādhānīya 903
7. Ibn Khurradādhbih on exports from the western Mediterranean 885
8. Ibn Rusta on the Khazars 903–913
9. Ibn Rusta on the Burtās 903–913
10. Ibn Rusta on the Bulkārs 903–913
11. Ibn Rusta on the Magyars 903–913
12. Ibn Rusta on the Saqāliba 903–913
13. Ibn Rusta on the Rūs 903–913
14. Mas‘ūdī on the Iron Gates 943
15. Mas‘ūdī on the Khazar capital 943
16. Mas‘ūdī on the Khazars 943
17. Mas‘ūdī on the khāqān of the Khazars 943
18. Mas‘ūdī on the Bulghārs 943
19. Mas‘ūdī on the Land of the Midnight Sun 943
20. Mas‘ūdī on the Saqāliba 943
21. Mas‘ūdī on the Rūs 943
22. Mas‘ūdī on a Viking raid on the Caspian c. 913
23. Miskawayh on the Rūs raid on Bardha‘a 943
24. Istakhrī on the Khazars and their neighbours c. 951
25. Mas‘ūdī on the fur trade 956
26. Ibrāhīm ibn Ya‘qūb on northern Europe 965
27. Muqaddasī on exports from Bulghār 985–990
28. Muqaddasī on the land of the Khazars 985–990
29. Ibn Hawqal on the trade in eunuchs 988
30. Ibn Hawqal on the fur trade and the Rūs attack on Itil and Bulghār 965
31. Ibn Hawqal on Khwārazm and its trade 988
32. Ibn Hawqal on the Rūs destruction of Itil 965
33. Bīrūnī on dog sleds, skates and silent barter c. 1030
34. The ‘Enclosed Nations’ of the far north 1118
35. Marwazī on the Rūs c. 1130
36. Marwazī on Bulghār and the far north c. 1130
37. Marwazī on the Saqāliba c. 1130
38. Yāqūt on Hungary 1228
39. Qazwīnī on Gog and Magog 1275
40. Marco Polo on dog sleds and the Land of Darkness 1293
41. Ibn Battūta on travel in the Land of Darkness 1332
42. Ibn Battūta on a winter journey to New Sarai 1332
43. Ibn Fadl Allāh al-‘Umarī on Siberia and Alexander’s Tower 1342–1349
Appendix 1 The Khazars, c. 650–c. 965
Appendix 2 The Rūs
Appendix 3 The Sāmānids
Appendix 4 The fur trade
Glossary
Bibliography
Notes
Penguin Story
Copyright Page
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