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: ''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

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Editions and reproductions

*Togan, Ahmed Zeki Validi, ''Ibn Fadlan's Reisebericht'' (Leipzig: Kommissionsverlag F. A. Brockhaus, 1939) dition, from Razawi Library MS 5229, and German translation, of Ibn Fadlān's text*Kovalevskii, A. P., ''Kniga Akhmeda Ibn-Fadlana o ego Puteschestvii na Volgu 921-922 gg'' (Kharkov, 1956). ncludes photographic reproduction of Ibn Fadlān's text in Razawi Library MS 5229.* 13th-century manuscripts Arabic manuscripts {{manuscript-stub