Aḥmad bin Faḍlān bin al-ʿAbbās bin Rāšid bin Ḥammād, (bahasa Arab: أحمد بن فضلان بن العباس بن راشد بن حماد; ca 879–960) yang lebih dikenal sebagai Ahmad bin Fadlan, adalah seorang penjelajah Muslim Arab abad ke-10.[a] Ia dikenal karena catatan perjalanannya sebagai anggota utusan khalifah Abbasiyah, al-Muqtadir dari Baghdad, untuk raja Volga Bulgar, yang dikenal sebagai risāla ("catatan" atau "jurnal").[b]
^Very little is known about Ibn Fadlan other than what can be inferred from his risāla. He is usually assumed to have been ethnically Arab, although there is no positive evidence to this effect.[1][2][3]
^The full title is Risālat Ibn Faḍlān, mab‘ūth al-khalīfah al-‘Abbāsī al-Muqtadir ilá bilād Ṣiqālīyah, ‘an riḥlatihi ... fī al-qarn al-‘āshir al-Mīlādī (رسـالـة ابن فـضـلان، مـبـعـوث الـخـلـيـفـة الـعـبـاسـي الـمـقـتـدر إلـى بـلاد الـصـقـالـيـة، عـن رحـلـتـه ... في الـقـرن الـعـاشـر الـمـيـلادي) or 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 Turks, the Khazars, the Rus, the Saqaliba [i.e. Slavs] and the Bashkirs")
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