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Cover -- Contents -- List of plates -- List of figures -- List of maps -- List of tables and appendices -- List of contributors -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Sources and bibliography for plates -- Part One Overview -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Ibn Fadlan's Kitab: Text and afterlife Viacheslav S. Kuleshov with Jonathan Shepard -- Part Two 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: The 'Anonymous Relation' and al-Jayhani Jean-Charles Ducène -- 6 Other ethnographies of the steppe Walter Pohl -- 7 Other travellers' tales Ian Wood -- Part Three 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 A. Arzhantseva and Heinrich Härke with a contribution by Ekaterina A. Armarchuk -- Part Four 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 Thorir Jonsson Hraundal -- 15 Rus and other Northmen under non-Arabic eyes Jonathan Shepard -- Part Five Volga Bulgaria -- 16 What was Volga Bulgaria? Leonard Nedashkovsky -- 17 Ninth- and tenth-century Volga Bulgar trade Evgeniy P. Kazakov -- 18 The Volga Bulgar imitative coinage Marek Jankowiak -- Part Six Conclusion -- 19 'Failure of a mission'? Jonathan Shepard -- List of reign dates -- List of alternative place names -- Glossary -- Index.