1258–1283: al-Qazwīnī Reports from Iraq on Schleswig or Haithabu
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https://doi.org/10.18148/tmh/2022.4.1.50Keywords:
geography, trade, knowledge transfer, Hedeby, Schleswig, Baltic Sea, Ibrāhīm b. Yaʿqūb al-Isrāʾīlī al-Ṭurṭūšī, paganism, travel account, Vikings, diplomacyAbstract
This article deals with a place called Šlašwīq (Haithabu/Schleswig) which is found as a lemma in the Āṯār al-bilād, a work compiled by the thirteenth-century Iraqi cosmographer and geographer al-Qazwīnī. The latter took his information on Šlašwīq and its inhabitants from a travel account written by the tenth-century Andalusian traveller Ibrāhīm b. Yaʿqūb al-Isrāʾīlī al-Ṭurṭūšī. The article considers the origin and transmission of this travelogue and endeavours to resolve which historical place is actually to be identified with Šlašwīq. A large part of the study debates the extent to which this Arabic-Islamic description of Šlašwīq reflects the historical realities of the tenth-century Baltic region, or the subjective impressions of the Andalusian traveller and his later compiler.
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