List of maps
List of illustrations
List of tables and appendices
Preface and acknowledgements
List of abbreviations List of contributors
Maps Plates
PART 1. OVERVIEW
1. Editors' introduction
2. Ibn Fadlan's Kitab: text and afterlife / Viacheslav S. Kuleshov with Jonathan Shepard
PART 2. 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 Duc̈ne
6. Other ethnographies of the steppe / Walter Pohl
7. Other travellers' tales / Ian Wood
PART 3. 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 H̃rke, with a contribution by Ekaterina A. Armarchuk
PART 4. VIKING-AGE RUS
11. Ibn Fadlan and the rituals of the Rus: Vikings on the Volga? / Neil Price
12. Viking-Age markets and emporia / Søren M. Sindbæk
13. Rus, routes and sites / Veronika Murasheva
14. Identities, ethnicities, cultures: Ibn Fadlan and the Rus on the Middle Volga / Þ̤rir J̤nsson Hraundal
15. Rus and other Northmen under non-Arabic eyes / Jonathan Shepard
PART 5. 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 6. CONCLUSION
19. 'Failure of a mission'? / Jonathan Shepard
List of Reign
Dates
List of Alternative Place Names
Glossary
Index.