Two Arabic Travel Books The two books combine two outstanding examples that are a masterpiece of Arabic travel writing, written in the same period however, they report on wildly different experiences. accounts for China or India can be described as a collection of anecdotes and reports on the people and the lands from that region of the Indian Ocean, from the Somali headlands to China and Korea.
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The first centuries of the Abbasid period saw a massive trading network in maritime commerce, the actual story behind the Sindbad stories. In this tale we travel to the east and find a vivid human landscape. It includes descriptions of Chinese government and society, Hindu religious practices, and the natural world including flying fish, Tibetan musk-deer to Sri Lankan gems.
The different accounts form the illusion of a world that is not like our own, one which is on the cusp of globalization. Through its port, you discover the most valuable cargo of knowledge; here are the first English descriptions of porcelain and tea as well as a wide array of strange social norms, cannibal island and Indian holy men. It is a fascinating everyday world that is contained in the compass of an novella.
The film, The Mission of the Volga In Mission to the Volga, we travel north in a mission of diplomatic service that takes us from Baghdad up to the higher reaches Volga River in the present-day central Russia.
This vibrant documentary by Ibn Fadlan relates the trials and struggles of an embassy comprised of missionaries and diplomats that was sent by the caliph al-Muqtadir in order to give religious and political instruction to the recently converted monarch of the Bulghars.
Through the course of eleven months of exhausting traveling, Ibn Fadlan records the amazing sights he sees on his journey, including the aurora borealis, and the white winter nights in the North. In addition, he provides an account of Viking Rus and their dress, customs tattoos, as well as an intriguing story of a funeral for a ship. The Mission of The Volga is the first surviving source of a continuous first-person travel narration in Arabic. It is a groundbreaking text with unparalleled literary and historical value.
Together, the stories of Two Arabic Travel Books illuminate a lively world of variety during the glory days of the Abbasid empire, and told with the same excitement and enthusiasm as they were seen by their attentive readers.
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Product details
- ASIN : B00RLSYPAK
- Publisher : NYU Press
- Publication date : December 8, 2014
- Language: English
- File size : 1885 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Print length : 393 pages
- Lending : Not Enabled
