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, 210 folia (420 pages), kept in Astane Quds Museum
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. It contains a collection of medieval Arabic geographical treatises, most notably the 10th-century account of

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: ''aẖbar al-buldan'' "Exploration of the lands" (p. 1) *

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: ''ar-risalatu-ṯ-ṯnaniat'' "Second relation" (p. 362) *

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*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

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