postmedieval a journal of medieval cultural studies· 2026Q2
‘The worst of all Turkish peoples’: Ibn Faḍlān’s travel account as British naval intelligence
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A 1918 British military intelligence document reinterpreted Ibn Faḍlān's tenth-century account of the Bāshghird people, framing it as naval intelligence and an authoritative judgment on an 'Orientalized other'.
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