{"id":192,"date":"2025-10-08T18:57:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T18:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mapping-middle-ages-2025\/?p=192"},"modified":"2025-10-08T18:57:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T18:57:56","slug":"ibn-fadlan-where-did-he-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mapping-middle-ages-2025\/2025\/10\/08\/ibn-fadlan-where-did-he-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Ibn Fadlan: Where did he go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/edit?mid=1stPbIu14bvru5Df9sF7O1D0D718xWZY&amp;usp=sharing\">Link to map\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Map color Key:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Red<\/strong>=Major locations that have been detailed in depth\/own sections:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Baghdad: Where he begins,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bakhara: Where he stops and gives a first look into another culture<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Khwarazm(Kath): Where he gives his second account of Culture<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bulghar: His end location, where he spends a great amount of time discussing their culture and conversion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Blue<\/strong>=Locations that are mentioned with some detail (about their journey, not these places\u2019 cultures):<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rayy: We learn that they waited for Ahmad ibn (they were in the wrong location)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jit: They got stuck due to the snow and had to stay for two days so their camels could walk through the snow<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Yellow<\/strong>=Locations that are mentioned in passing with no additional information:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nishapur: The only information is that they made it here with the concealed caravan, but no additional trip info is given (no time, no weather, etc.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sarakhs: Absolutely no information is given<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nahrawan: We only know they stayed one day<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Simnan: Once again, no information is given<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link to map\u00a0 Map color Key: Red=Major locations that have been detailed in depth\/own sections: Baghdad: Where he begins, Bakhara: Where he stops and gives a first look into another culture Khwarazm(Kath): Where he gives his second account of Culture Bulghar: His end location, where he spends a great amount of time discussing their culture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ibn-fadlan","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mapping-middle-ages-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mapping-middle-ages-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mapping-middle-ages-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mapping-middle-ages-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mapping-middle-ages-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mapping-middle-ages-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mapping-middle-ages-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mapping-middle-ages-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mapping-middle-ages-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mapping-middle-ages-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}