아흐마드 이븐 파들란 이븐 알아바스 이븐 라시드 이븐 하마드(아랍어:أحمد بن فضلان بن العباس بن راشد بن حماد: fl. 921년-922년)는 10세기의 아랍인 탐험가다. 바그다드아바스조칼리파가 볼가 불가르인에게 사절을 보낼 때 그 행렬에 동행했고, 그 과정을 『튀르크족, 하자르인, 루스인, 사칼리바인, 바시키르인들에 관한 기록』이라는 일지로 남겼다.[1] 이븐 파들란의 기록은 볼가강 바이킹에 관한 가장 상세한 사료로서 가치를 갖는다. 심지어 이븐 파들란은 바이킹의 배무덤 관습을 직접 눈으로 목격하기까지 했다.[2]
full title:
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
also 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".
Nothing is known about Ibn Fadlan other than what can be inferred from his Risala.
It has been asserted that he was a faqih (an espert in Islamic jurisprudence) at the court of the AbbasidCaliphAl-Muqtadir.
Gabriel, Judith. “Among the Norse Tribes: The Remarkable Account of Ibn Fadlan”. Saudi Aramco World. Houston: Aramco Services Company, 1999. 36-42. Web. 1 Dec. 2012 Archived 2010년 1월 13일 - 웨이백 머신
He is usually assumed to have been ethnically Arab although there is no positive evidence to this effect.
Knight, Judson. "Ibn Fadlan: An Arab Among the Vikings of Russia." Science and Its Times. Ed. Neil Schlager and Josh Lauer. Vol. 2: 700 to 1449. Detroit: Gale, 2001. 32-34. Gale Virtual Reference Library
“left a unique geo-historical and ethnographic record of the northern fringes of 10th-century Eurasia” Perry, John R. (2009). “review of Frye (2005)”. Journal of Near Eastern Studies (University of Chicago Press) 68 (2). doi:10.1086/604698. ISSN1545-6978. JSTOR10.1086/604698.. See also: Gabriel, Judith. “Among the Norse Tribes: The Remarkable Account of Ibn Fadlan”. Saudi Aramco World. Houston: Aramco Services Company, 1999. 36-42.
