Aḥmad bin Faḍlān bin al-ʿAbbās bin Rāšid bin Ḥammād, (bahasa Arab:أحمد بن فضلان بن العباس بن راشد بن حمادcode: ar is deprecated ; ca879–960) yang lebih dikenal sebagai Ahmad bin Fadlan, adalah seorang penjelajah Muslim Arab abad ke-10.[a] Ia dikenal karena catatan perjalanannya sebagai anggota utusan khalifah Abbasiyah, al-Muqtadir dari Baghdad, untuk raja Volga Bulgar, yang dikenal sebagai risālacode: ar is deprecated ("catatan" atau "jurnal").[b]
↑Very little is known about Ibn Fadlan other than what can be inferred from his risālacode: ar is deprecated . He is usually assumed to have been ethnically Arab, although there is no positive evidence to this effect.[1][2][3]
↑The full title is Risālat Ibn Faḍlān, mab‘ūth al-khalīfah al-‘Abbāsī al-Muqtadir ilá bilād Ṣiqālīyah, ‘an riḥlatihi ... fī al-qarn al-‘āshir al-Mīlādī (رسـالـة ابن فـضـلان، مـبـعـوث الـخـلـيـفـة الـعـبـاسـي الـمـقـتـدر إلـى بـلاد الـصـقـالـيـة، عـن رحـلـتـه ... في الـقـرن الـعـاشـر الـمـيـلاديcode: ar is deprecated ) or ma šahidat fi baladi-t-turk wa al-ẖazar wa ar-rus wa aṣ-ṣaqalibat wa al-bašġird wa ġirham ("Account of the lands of the Turks, the Khazars, the Rus, the Saqaliba [i.e. Slavs] and the Bashkirs")
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