Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān Author

Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī (Author)
Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī was a seafarer who moved from the Persian port-city of Siraf to Basra in 303/915-916. He wrote the second half of Accounts of China and India, supplementing an earlier section written by an unknown mariner and merchant fifty years earlier.
Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān (Author)
Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān was a member of a diplomatic mission sent by the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadir in 309-310/921-922 to the king of the Volga Bulghars. His is the only existing record of that mission.
Tim Mackintosh-Smith (Edited and Translated by)
Tim Mackintosh-Smith is a noted British travel author, best known for his trilogy on the renowned Moroccan world-traveler Ibn Baṭṭūṭah, which earned him a spot among Newsweek’s top twelve travel writers of the past hundred years. Since 1982, he has lived in Sanaa, Yemen.
James E. Montgomery (Edited and Translated by)
James E. Montgomery is Sir Thomas Adams’s Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall. His latest publications are Loss Sings, a collaboration with the Scottish artist Alison Watt, and Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice, a co-translation with Michael Fishbein.