Ibn Fadlan - A Viking Funeral - Extra History
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- 📜 Ibn Fadlan: A Viking Funeral - Ibn Fadlan might not be as popular or as well-traveled as Ibn Battuta, but his travels took him north where he ran into some of the strangest people he had ever met. The Vikings. Ibn Fadlan fawned over the impressive Rus Vikings, but was also disgusted by their habits. But most importantly, he wrote down all of his observations, including a Viking funeral.
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Ibn Fadlan: "the Vikings are pretty damn cool, from good distance
Lol!
😂😂
Someone: "Oh I wanna go back to the medieval times. Life was so simple!"
Vikings: "Aight, we have got a volunteer!"
by volunteer do you mean a thrall? lol
Sacrifice
Good one👍
Inquisitors : So you have some weird knowledges ? What would you like hanging or burning stake or
Maybe drowning ?
Life would not sound so good when you think of The Very Dirty Bathroom conditions, almost no sanitation. I mean Bathrooms in Ships these days are not often sanitary, and we are talking about centuries ago.
Man imagine how many amazing stories were forever lost when the monghols burned the house of wisdom.
what a shame
a small portion was saved, that is 400k books.
I mean imagine what the number back then was!
Not only books, there wasn't an Abassid palace, library or a monument that survived the Monghol invasion. they had been all burn to the ground
The biggest loss were the sacking of the great library of alexandria :c
Romans probably learned more from the Greeks than the other way around. The conquering force isn't always the most advanced in all areas.
Sultan baybars destroyed the mongols
Marvel: Our film is the most ambitious crossover ever.
Extra History: Hold my side trip.
Ben Ogurok lol
Muslims Christian relationship is really complicated
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Rofl
You want to go further? I literally read a Marvel fanfic that adapted this account of the Viking funeral attended by Ibn Fadlan.
I had no idea Ibn Fadlan and his countrymen looked like East Indians. I thought they would have looked like Iraqi Arabs. The cartoon seems to indicate otherwise.
Viking : * is hazing another Viking *
Ibn Fadhlan's translator : Here you can see a Viking in its natural habitat, busy with its courtship ritual. If the ritual is successful, the two Vikings will mate for the season. Truly majestic creatures !
Ibn Fadhlan : * confused screaming *
Pin this lol
If I could save youtube comments I would save this one.
Haha
Sounds like a National Geographic commentary!
Holy water
Just for the guys wandering "why there is a lot of IBN"
Ibn in Arabic means "son of" its like family name
Son of fadhlan, son of batuta, son of sina...etc
Edit: just to clarify in Arabs culture u'll have a different family name from ur father for example ur name is Mohamed, your father's name is ahmed and your grandfather's name is omar so:
-ur father's full name is ahmed ibn omar.
-ur full name is Mohamed ibn ahmed
Thats how naming system work in old arabia and they mostly mention alot of their grandfathers if some one asked theme for their full name its goes like: Mohamed ibn ahmed ibn omar ibn ali ibn...etc
Sorry for my bad English
So kinda like "-son" in scandinavian names. Andersson, Gustafsson, Peterson...
@@jokuvaan5175 now that you mention it, it's kinda weird, Batutason, Fadlanson, Sinason. Those sound weird
@@jokuvaan5175 Not really its not in the name itself its like a heritage thing.
His name was Ahmed HIs father "or tribe" was Fadlan so he is Ahmed Son of Fadlan
"bin" also works
That is the structure of most Arabic names. Whenever you see something like Mohammed bin Salman (current crown prince of Saudi Arabia), think Mohammed, son of Salman.
@@optimus2200 The Scandinavian names also used to be like that. For example Anders, Gustaf and Peter are all scandinavian men's first names. So Son of Anders etc. Iceland actually still uses the these paternal/maternal last names to some degree. Where their last name is their father's first name + son or dottir(daughter) depending on their sex.
When you start the trip observing hot vikings and get invited to observe flaming hot vikings.
"You think the vikings are hot now, you just wait..."
Ragnar, the sexyiest of all Vikings.
That makes you double lit.
LOL xD
you can eat the flaming hot ones like cheetos
It is very interesting to see that despite wording out his revolsion to some of the practices of these people, he still kind of tried to write down it from an objective perspective as best as he could. Such a trait is quite rare in humans, and it is truly amazing he did so, giving us a glimps into a world long gone.
He was a g
Yeah he was quite remarkable in that regard.
Also read Ibn Rustah, he was a Persian traveler who also journeyed with the Rus' peoples and described their habits in a more positive way, while Fadlan was very fixated on gentiles not doing the Muslim ritual washing, though both complimented the varangians on having luscious, clear, well-combed and often braided hair))) Legolasland.
@@KasumiRINA Ibn Rustah and Ibn Fadlan met and described different vikings, They were not all the same
Islam creates people with positive characteristics that are difficult to find in humans, because Islam is from Allah Almighty (God Almighty)
He also described the northern lights and he thought them like some kind of Jin's works and was he very terrified .if this is true ,this proves he reached at least the baltic sea shores .
What is the northern lights???
@@iman7j887 Aurora
@@iman7j887 Aurora borealis
Volga Bulgaria is about as far North as the southern Baltic, and the Northern Lights have been recorded as far south as just 21 degrees north of the Equator.
How is that possible? For seeing northern lights you must reach far north in dark winters to see it
"They look cool but they are disgusting" -ibn fadlan
Yeah I agree
Spanish and germans were like that unhygenic.
@@monstersamator5288 Ahh, yes. Soup.
@@weopdurdegenes6598
Soap*
@@weopdurdegenes6598 😂😂😂🤓
That's what makes these travellers in history so cool. The curiosity and interest with other cultures with their own beliefs to balance them off.
This was the real life basis for the film “13th Warrior”
13th Warrior is such a niche, weirdly awesome film too. It's fun to see they actually translated a lot of what Fadlan wrote about, like the communal face washing.
Which is based on Crichton's "Eaters of the Dead" novel.
Which is also an adaption of the fantasy story "Beowulf"
13th Warrior is the movie of Michael Crichton's Eaters of the Dead that was mentioned in the audible ad (as someone who has read the book, I'd say watch the movie)
True. Sadly, the movie got most other things wrong.
Everything in history is interconnected.
DragoniteSpam I agree
The Kievan Rus, are they Vikings? No. Ok fair enough.
What about Australia and th rest of the world before Europeans?
Like between Australia and the rest of the world.
@@wilyape1750 I think China had been there before
3:19 Ibn Fadlan: "No offense but this aint music its noise."
Didn't expect that to be hear.
@@Rickuono its not, give an example of what you heard and found horrible.
@@Rickuo here is an example, classical Arabic Music.
th-cam.com/video/zX7gJKlDDyY/w-d-xo.html
Rokuro
No no no, you started this, you give us an example.
Rokuro everyone has their preferances so i dont get what you mean it might be shit for you but heavenly sounds for others so whats the point exactly ?
There was a library in Baghdad (The house of wisdom) established at 752 and destroyed by mongols in 1258 . Imagine the stories and the history of the world was there.
The same counts for the library of Alexandria.
مكتبة دار الحكمة 💔
Right
@@c.a.1929 hmm destroyed by the romans
So sad💔
Islamic travelers went literally *everywhere* aren't they?
Pretty much ya
Yes
I think they did more than the Vikings that went to Constantinople lol
Always side trip
They reached America too...
Wasn't this the historical event that inspired The Thirteenth Warrior film?
That and the poem Beowulf.
Specifically, this event inspired the Crichton book, which was then adapted into The 13th Warrior. Antonio Banderas was playing Ibn Fadlan.
@@erikrungemadsen2081 Well, Beowulf was the inspiration for the 13th Warrior. So yeah.
@@erikrungemadsen2081 ...and the Goonies. They kept the water slides but left out the war with the evil preppies who were trying to turn the neighborhood into a golf course, the criminal gang on the lam, and the hidden pirate treasure of One Eyed Willy.
Yeah kinda
Man Islamic people traveled far!
Fun fact : a group of islamic OTTOMAN pirates once took over iceland
Ye but O man the europeians they traveld far far far far awey
@@aroma13 Now that would be an interesting topic on this channel
@@aroma13 they were moroccans. we did a research on them in our university.
Well... Their name is Muslims, not Islamic people. The Muslim empire spanned between the Chinese borders and the French-Spanish borders, with population mostly trading for business, so that's kinda natural. Add to that the religious ritual of Hajj, or visiting Mecca... so yeah, they traveled a lot.
"Stupid, sexy vikings..."
- Ibn Fadlan, probably
While rolling and crying in his bed
"Nothing at all. Nothing at all."
"Feelings like I'm washing nothing at all!
Nothing at all!
Nothing at all!"
In homer Simpson's voice.
Samy Ebeid As he holds his diary close to him, squealing.
رحم الله العالم الفاضل
ابن فضلان
ورحم الله زمان المجد زمان كانت بغداد مركز العالم وترسل منها البعثات والعلماء
يي والله ❤️
And today Bagdad is a city of terror. You can get missing anytime there.
@abdullah only the west gets to choose who are the terrorists 😂😂
@@purpleheadedmonster8735 Maybe if they didn't invade Iraq they wouldn't suffer this much and have to flee into European countries
ليس عالم بل رحاله ومستكشف
Not gonna lie, that human sacrifice ritual, as described by Ibn Fadlan, was very disturbing. Did he share his own thoughts on the sacrifice in his travelogue?
@Tarik Hodzic We in islam value human life. And then life of Environment and Animals. It is NEVER OK to kill anything be it and Animal or a Human without a serious justification for either.
Example, to kill an Animal for food is ok.
To kill a person in a state of war (2 combatants) is ok (because its a state of war). Self defense as well (to protect yourself or family) Any other reason is forbidden and has heavy consequences in the hereafter.
Childs play compared to Aztects
He probably hated it, Islam dislikes lavish funerals.
You can actually find the whole description narrated on (at least) two TH-cam channels: Voices of the Past and ABAlphaBeta. You can also find a lot of other cool stuff on both of them. Voices of the Past is dedicated to the primary historical sources (and it's essentially a side project to the History Time channel, which has cool documentaries), while ABAlphaBeta has miscellaneous stuff, mostly revolving around history and linguistics, sometimes shitposting.
And yeah, the ritual Ibn Fadlan is describing is quite disturbing, especially since he dwells more on that "sexual component" that was kinda glossed over in this video (understandably) but doesn't comment it much if I recall correctly.
They get them high as a kite and drunk. Then basically it sounds like the whole male village rapes her. Talk about going out in a weird way
blue: did I heAR CONSTANTINOPLE
Eyyy
Lol
It's nobody's business but the Turks.
time for a pope fight!
Just add a dome and he'll come in rushing.
I love the honesty in these Islamic Scholars..no biased behaviour, just plain, honest, poetic description!
Arabs loved to record everything in detail, you can find poems and stories of people even before Islam.
They used to brag how quickly they can remember long poems after couple times they listen to it.
Eyyy those are amazigh my dude
@Velocity Investment.? Finding What has happened now is that your American and European masters invaded and destroyed their land and displaced them from their homes. and used the media to make people believe that they are terrorists and monsters and that they should be killed when they are seen.
Despite this there are still a lot of Arab talents, for example, the Apple which you are using now the founder of her company is originally Arab ... but your racist media will not mention this.
Contemporary nomadic loremasters woulda given them a run for their money, on memorization of long poems/epics.
@محمد أمين لا يوجد جنس افضل من اخر فمسلمون سواسية
@@umre562 اسرق تاريخ الناس يا عابد الشمس الأمازيغي 😂
"Traveling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller ” Ibn Battuta
“Very sexy very stinky vikings”
Kinky
Takk
@@jefferygoldmann2643 eyyy hallo
@@Safewoood hallo
@@jefferygoldmann2643 Hei. Jeg er norsk. Hva med deg.
Ibn Fadlan's writing was used as inspiration of movie 13th warrior.
Crichton’s novel was based on ibn Fadlan, and on Beowulf. The movie was then based on the novel. Crichton even directed some of the re-shoots, from what I’ve read.
"Vikings are wild Asses" - ibn Fadlan [3:26]
👱❤🌟👍
accurate
Pretty racist of him
@@richardnixon2445 They were some wild chilling dudes living the life like how they want to.
@@richardnixon2445 to be perfectly honest he was pretty Damn open minded considering the fact that everything these people did was the complete polar opposite of what he was taught since birth
We want story of Abdul Rahman I, emir of cordoba. Imagine, he ran away from damascus to cordoba. Many great story that could be tell. From his family die infront of his eyes to become ruler in foreign land
@Canis Lupus he cross 3 continents you know (asia, africa and europe). He is the heir of umayyad caliphate which is largest islamic empire then become ruler of emirate of cordoba which is among richest muslim kingdom in history
The more the merrier
@@naibketuakjnaibketua5160 who?
@@kucingcat8687 do you care to share a link of that TH-cam channel, if possible?
He was called the eagle of quraish and Abdul rahman AL dakhil meaning "the enterer" referring to him entering Cordoba and regaining Islamic power in Spain.
How we know Viking traditions
Fellow Viking ❌
Anglo Saxon captives ❌
Arabian Scholar ✔
and how u know most of modern medecine ,arabian scholar too ,, at that age arabic muslim world where the most scholar and science people in the world , studying and writing was comonly used while it was only for noble mans in europe
I mean, vikings themselves didnt leave much written records, and anglos hsted their guts (rightfully they raided them a lot) so they cant be trusted to be subjective
You only need to check norrhern europe today to see Ibn fadlan was spot on, we used to live with cattle anf swine in 1 house till the 20th century plus burning the dead or setting easter fires is the norm till this day in the north, add the fact of paganism and witchcraft anf human sacrifies is a given.
when you want to learn something
find a muslim
kkaze 727 True
Am I the only one that chuckles whenever Ibn Battuda's side trip sign is displayed?
And that blue glasses tho
@@ariemountara2631
He got the glasss from indian king
History doesn’t do good to the innovation, sacrifices Islamic scholars made,
Thanks Extra Credit for shining some light.
Most of the greatest Islamic documentaries and studies were burnt down along with the Bayt Al-Hikma (House of wisdom) in Baghdad when it fell to the Mongols, sadly they put all the eggs in one basket :(
This event really hits me in the heart because here in Egypt we witnessed the same forgotten knowledge with the burning of the Great library of Alexandria!!
@@deeipomar2366 if not because of the mongol i think not only him but more story we will know about europe today
@@suleymanertugrul9716 Agreed!!
Exactly
I dunno. I was told this story in school, and Islamic scholarship from around the dark ages frequently reared it's head in history class.
I read the original Arabic version of the book. The sacrifice part was described in more detail and it was so brutal that I couldn't sleep well the day I read it. I don't know why he says it wasn't clear at that point.
كان واضح بس ماذكرها لأن فيها كلام ميصحش 😁
@@user-qpp لا مذكرهاش لأنه غير محايد.. الكتاب ده بيفضح قذارة ووحشية الغرب في العصور الوسطى عشان كده عمره ماهيترجم بأمانة
Hello can you give us a brief overview of it. I am by no means able to read Arabic but I'd like to read if there is a translation of tha book in English.
@@Poopyduckling9999
You can find an English translation on Amazon.
@@Poopyduckling9999 Blogging theology has done a detailed excerpt on it
When America doesn’t exist
He was able to go in and out of Baghdad peacefully
the world back then was so free, but now after passports and border enforcement as created, the world became a much smaller
Lol
Imagine if you have a toothache in Medieval era
Yes because us Native Americans magically appeared once the Vikings landed in northern Canada. We didn’t exist before 🙄
Hahahaha
Islamic travelers have the best stories 👌😌
Arabic** not Islamic
Not islamic, not arabic but Muslims. There are many great stories of Muslims of Arabs, Persians, Turks, Indian, Chinese and even Caucasian backgrounds that wrote great travel stories.
@@طايعابومطيع I mean both
edgeofugly Islamic Civilization = Arabic Civilization
M00KING00M The Islamic Arabic Civilization
So the Vikings were pretty much (physically and socially) exactly how we imagined them.
Well how we imagine them is based off that book and it can't be 100% accurate for reasons mentioned in the video
I think it's the other way around. We imagine vikings this way because of these accounts from outside sources long ago.
viking actually pretty clean compare to other european. atleast they bath 1 in a week.
@@almalayuwiyyah2512 The thing is, the people in the medieval times also washed themselves. Bathing multiple times per week.
Well yeah they came from scandinava.. People from Northern Europe are considered the most attractive in the world
It's fascinating how the Islamic world developed a semi-modern sense of hygiene before any European culture (well, except the Romans but they fell apart far before the Islam actually became a major religion)
As a European person it's really interesting to see the world in a different perspective. So thank you for making the video! 😄
Basic hygiene is part of Islamic rituals. You can't perform Islamic prayer without that. Muslims pray 5 times a day so it's basically given.
As they say: Cleanliness is next to Godliness.
Before any european culture? Maybe yes however other europeans had better hygenic practices before this
Societies rise and fall, this period was a low point for europe and a high point for arabia
@@dabtican4953 Still using toilet paper to this day tho 🤷♂️
moral of the story : wash your hands people !!!!
it seems the guy's description was very accurate. if you tried to make things up you would usually show the entire anecdote either in a completely positive or a completely negative light, but describing them as "the most beautiful specimen" and "they were very filthy" sounds realistic, if he was biased he wouldn't have mentioned 2 seemingly very different traits, he would've sticked with just one according to his bias.
Yh Islamic sources are very trustful but western scholars deny their sources for some reason.
Lol 😆 🤣
Small brain: Christian Preachers converting Vikings
Big Brain: Islamic Scholars documenting the Viking life
@Joshua张志鸿 what's more human?!
He did low key try to preach to them about human sacrifice but they told him that arabs are fools for burying their dead and letting maggots eat them instead of sending them directly to heaven with a girlfriend for company, so yeah they were too proud and too culturally remote to embrace islam
@@anon-iraq2655 how in earth telling people that human sacrifice is preaching ?
Plus, many vikings convert to islam after they reach sevilla.
Actually we invite different nations to Islam, and many viking tribes convirted to Islam you can google this, but we invite people by arguing and giving proofs about our religion, not threats and massacres like churches unfortunately
@@Alserany Yes, you're absolutely not threatening and massacring anyone today :D
The book titles The Journey of Ibn Fadhlan. رحلة بن فضلان
اوووه وانا ضليت احاول افهم شو يعني "فدلان" xD
@@the_distinguished ههههههههههههه 😂
He didn't really rack his brains for a title, did he. (Not judging)
@@ArkadiBolschek books that were written back then tended to have very straight-to-the-subject titles. No twists and turns.
Nobody got time for that
@@fatimaalaa2659 😅 يا رااااجل ! فضحتنا 😂
"They are the filthiest of God's creatures, Indeed, they are like wild asses." I'm dead💀
I really appreciate that this channel portrays the reality of Arab Muslims in the golden age of Islam, people think we’re savage monster and that we have always been and always will be, and they discredit the great achievements of Muslim scholars and academics such as the great al khawarizmi and Ibn Khaldun (I know he wasn’t even born in the golden age of Islam but still he was a great philosopher/political analyst) and Ibn Sina or Avicenna, etc.
Khwarizmi, Ibn Sina etc were Iranians though. Only Ibn Khaldun was an Andalusian arab. But I get your point.
@@jamieammar6131 Persians, not Iranians. Also, that depends on how you’d define Arab, sure none of them were from the Arabian peninsula, but if we’re using that definition we’d have to say the Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, etc. are all not Arabs even though they speak Arabic and practice Arabic culture with similarities between them and all other Arabian countries. Hell, we could say that Andalusian “Arabs” weren’t really Arabs because they were originally from the north-west Africa region.
@@drip3889 For Ibn Sina, Iranian is more fitting than being a Persian since ethnically he might have been a Tajik. But that's right too. Anywho, while Persian is generally an ethnicity, people with lineage way back to the Zoroastrian era, Arab is not an ethnicity. Arabic speaking people are Arabs. The ones that invaded northern Africa and eventually Andalusia, are Arabs. Unless you count the later Amazigh converts who are still Amazigh, or Berbers. They have their own language and culture. Never were Arabs. Same goes for the native Coptic Egyptians and Nubians.. although most of them have accepted Arabic. A lot of those people would prefer to be called Egyptians rather than Arabs.
Facts, wonder if this channel has done more videos on great Muslim scholars and the Islamic Golden Ages
You still fell off hard.
I am loving this, please continue exploring islamic stories and histories.
moral of this video: no matter how much sexy you are, you should be clean and have a good culture
But they were clean the info in the video is out dated
@@cster9261 clean is subjective, for some people just washing your hands and taking a shower once a week is clean but for some its not, for others taking shower five times a day is the proper clean.
Point taken however I was merely griping about how people Want to believe that one culture is superior and one was inferior and how they can’t except that we were all people who all wanted to be clean live a good life.
@@wewenang5167 no even muslims not like that 2 times is good one in the morning and one in night
@@h_s5770 no, We Muslims wash our hands and feets five times a day and take bath when ever dirty falls on our body no matter how many times a day.
History is an a amazing thing. Seems as if people were interconnected in was many never thought.
FADLAN'S PAL: "Hey, Ahmed - long time no see!"
FADLANl: "Yeah...Ibn busy"
Fadlan is the name of his father (since "Ibn" is the Arabic word for "son of") so that gives it a whole new meaning.
Goddamn it
The pun is still good tho
@@SerTempleton Ok, Thanks. (Canadian BTW)
@@hamd8375 Thanks
the rus the rus, run from the rus, because they smell *terrible*
They have 100 in combat but 0 in stealth cause their enemies can smell them!
@@ElBandito
Btw they are good stealth warriors if you read their battles
The Muslim burial is more echo friendly
I think you mean eco-friendly.
@@greensteve9307 if so then I don't think my great grand parents could say anything with the kafan covering his whole body
@@thepunishersequence291 *facepalm xD*
😂😂
@@thepunishersequence291 kafan is made of cotton, and that is of course eco-friendly
الله يرحمك يا ابن فضلان رحلتك عظيمه ووثقها التاريخ للابد
Amin, for the muslims were great scholars, thanks to the almighty Allah 🙏 ☪️
Correction on 0:20 - that isn't the route he took, he actually went through Persia and East of the Caspian Sea, due to the Caucuses Mountains having some hostile tribes during that time.
If i remember correctly, the tribes you mentioned was probably the Agus tribes?
Ro Ha or the Cheppatae confederation
@@michaelweston409 sorry for late replies but who are they? I've never heard of them before.
@@roha1329 khazars, tatars, turks.
الحمد لله على نعمة الإيمان والإسلام ❤️
أخوكم فى الإسلام من إندونيسيا
"they are the most perfect people i ever seen"
*5 mins later*
"they are the filthiest of the world"
This is interesting...
Well he see them first and then he smelled them
RezaF He meant it in physical way, not in their customs
That part cracked me up..lol
Thats meant anatomically perfect!
*physically* perfect
*"I have never seen more perfect physical specimens"*
*They are the filthiest of gods creatures*
I think he means that they’re physically perfect but that their practices are filthy.
Just their hygiene and not their physical appearance
Moral of the story, no matter how good looking you are, hygiene is far more important
Thats perfect balance between yin and yang
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
Ibn Fadlan never doubted his religion, but he mocked their worship of idols in his book when he said that a man among them prays to a statue and then slaughters a sacrifice for it only for the dogs to come at night and eat his sacrifice, and the man returns the next day with joy that his sacrifice was accepted
Lol 😂
Are you saying that can’t happen ?
@@_DaMan_ He was mocking ibn Fadlan for misunderstanding what pagans actually thought about animal sacrifices. It was considered a good thing if it got eaten by wild animals, ibn Fadlan didn't understand that.
@@everettduncan7543 that's more likely his translator's fault
They were primitive civilizations, it makes sense for them becausd they probably didn't thought deeoly about that.
It's incredible the way you guys manage to make history so personal, you manage to connect history to the present in an incredible way.
I really like these arab scholar travel videos
Keep up the good work guys
"Very sexy, very stinky Vikings"
"Stupid sexy Vikings!'
@@NicoBabyman1 as a Norwegian i feel honored and offended
@@Safewoood Hi. I'm also norwegian.
@@Safewoood that's kinky xD
@@Safewoood i'm an arab and even i felt that was kinda messed up 😅😅 but that was what he saw and he didn't wright his diary for us now to judge ✌️✌️
Bought this book, I can recommend it. The version I bought also contains multiple stories of Arab/Persian travellers to Russia between the 10th and 14th century. Its very interesting to read how these area's developed from the time of Ibn Fadlan's visit in 922 (933 a.d. as written by Ibn Fadlan).
Ibn Fadlan: The Vikings had perfect bodies.
Historians: Seems accurate.
Ibn Fadlan: they were also incredibly unhygienic, insanitary, indecent, and obscene.
also Historians: ...well Ibn Fadlan is probably biased due to his religious and cultural background and he also needed a translator.
"westerner" historians
And then there's Ahmad Ibn Rustah, who also visited the Rus. Good grief there's so many of them hahaha!
*And they called the Portuguese explorers*
@@Pistolemaster *AMATEUR*
@@Pistolemaster Japan, tho 😛
i am Egyptian, so technically an Arab. You guys have done great work here , the content and resources are waaaaaaay better than those ones we have in our cultures. Thanks Man , keep up the good , interesting, amazing work
Egyptians aren't arabs .. we are arabs culturally and linguistically not ethnicity ...arabs are 17% of Egyptian population
Omar Gadal Egyptians are Arabs, from the tribes that came later to Egypt from Yemen, Morocco , KSA . Read more
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انتو اقباط يا باشا
العرب في مصر هم بدو سينا وشوية في الصعيد من بني هلال
@@elfantastico01
انتو اقباط يا باشا
العرب في مصر هم بدو سينا وشوية في الصعيد من بني هلال
I absolutely LOVE those latest videos on islamic travelers. It gives so many insights on cultures!
It's nice to see a lot of other people who remember "The Thirteenth Warrior" in here. It's a badass movie.
Totally
One of the best medieval/adventure movies ever made
Still my fav movie
I still pissed off that there was no dragon at all.
Stupid Bullvye
رحم الله محمد بن فضلان. 📃👳✒📖⛵
my real name is fadhlan, is so very funny when someone says my name like some main character in that story
The Russ like him ,coz he wrote their history when no one did
I remember learning stories about The Crusaders meeting Byzantine royals who were repulsed by their hygiene. I love hearing these meeting-of-cultures narratives. Please do more! More in depth!
الحمد لله على نعمة الإسلام ❤
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@@yohanbs9654 When muslims would see non muslims doing this stuff liek the cremation and sacrifice which afcoursely according to our religion has no basis in reality . We would say thank god for making us muslims and Islam is blessing for us
Amin brother 🙏
Islam is a curse to humanity.
@@SirDankleberry tf you just say?
انا كعربي اول مرة اسمع عن هذي المعلومة اهنيك على هذا الإبداع منقطع النظير
اكتب ابن فضلان بلعربي
ايضا ناشرين فيديو عنه في قناة السبيل
ونفس الطريقه
I am using this video for my essay , thank you so much! I love your awesome content!
love the details Ibn Fadlan adds. Muslim travelers had more scientically-accurate and impartial accounts of other cultures and their ways of life than the Europeans who imitated them centuries later
@Ash. Bl. The muslim story telling was better, have you seen ibn battuda vs Marco polo?
One of them went on 1 long trip vs the other went on many side stories. It was fun watching it.
Can you name me a fun adventure a European traveler had?
@@Steyr32 in my opinion both are good at their own field, the European found the Western world and the Muslim found the east, both are good in their own way.
You do realize some of Asians most popular cultures are directly based of Europeans right? Bollywood, Manga, Anime, Cinematography in general, Japanese cars, Japanese bikes, robotics, warfare etc. Jesus 90% of things people use on the daily all over the world were invented by Europeans
Nice to see that they give islam a fair review now.
Not!
What are you on about? Their methods were Greek, just like the rest of the ancient world save China.
Rus Vikings: *exist*
Ibn Fadlan: They told me that Shaytan would be attractive.
Oh man, Damn. You went there. You even spelled the name in the way we pronounce it. You have my respect.
Saim Ali Shahid isn’t it also spelled as Shaitaan?
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Yeah
He did not say they are attractive or sexy this is our modern obsession of sex body and materialism interpretation he was referring to their fighting skills being nomadic and primitive hard working though they might look ugly
5:49
Girl: Well I’m going to die in 10 days. Better party hard.
I am from the Middle East ( West Asia ) and studying history in school was always interesting. Like a story time ❤️😂our scholars, travelers, poets... etc are amazing
I'm a Norwegian-American, and my direct ancestors were Vikings like these folks. It amazes me how we were straight-up the definition of barbarian bad guys. My great-(x)-grandfather was out there raping nuns, then locking the entire village in the church and burning it down. We shouldn't have to be morally relative about the terrible things that the culture of my ancestors did, and we shouldn't excuse terrible things that other cultures do today because "it's just their culture; you can't judge it." Objectively, all humans have feelings and worth, and we can and should say something when others are wounded or repressed in the name of "different values." To anyone whom they hurt, I apologize on behalf of my ancestors.
Respect✋
But by your great grandfathers time, vikings were christianised, isnt it? Then why the rampage?
No need to apologise. Our ancestors drank from the skull of enemies and made Tower of human skulls. And left nothing alive in one city.
Turks.
@@matheenarif8645 mongols?
Marksman
I like your ancestors.
I admire all those genuine cultures that perished due to the spread of Abrahamic religions.
Abrahamic religions wiped out indigenous life styles and customs.
"Lo there do I see my father; Lo there do I see my mother and my sisters and my brothers; Lo there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning. Lo, they do call to me, they bid me take my place among them, in the halls of Valhalla, where the brave may live forever."
Fun fact, this was actually made up by the movies writers with a different yet similar version in the book by Ibn Fadlan
@@psychogerbil64 I love how a version of it was used in the latest God of War game
Why did you question what he wrote and the things that Ibn Fadlan witnessed, but we never see you doubting what the Greek or European historians say in the eighteenth century and taking it as facts
"Y'all look sexy and all but holy shit you play trash" - Ahmed, probably.
Funny that even though Ibn Fadlan is considered lesser known, I'd heard about his chronicles of the vikings long before I ever knew about Ibn Battuta. Possibly because the 1999 film The 13th Warrior was based in part on Fadlan's writing.
Ibn Fadlan: "Ok, fine, I get the cremation part. But why do you have to kill all these animals and an innocent girl?"
Random Rus: "Yes"
Ibn Fadlan: *confused screaming*
the Animals I can understand because ramadan also has that but the human sacrifice was confusing
@@ethandouro4334 It's Eid Al Adha
@@ethandouro4334 but we eat it not throw away.
@@isseabdirahmanweheliye9010 yes Ik
Exciting ethnography! Ibn Fadlan was indeed the most prominent anthropologist of his time.
Can you cover the history of pirates? I recently lost one of my favorite books, which was a book about the history of pirates. And the thing about the book was how it went into so much detail not only about the golden age in the Caribbean but also in places like the Mediterranean or Southeast Asia. You guys are one of my favorite TH-cam channels, and I think one of your series could do a great job of covering this very interesting topic. I’m not a Patreon (money is harddddd) but I really hope maybe you guys could cover this. This topic is not only really interesting but also sometimes exaggerated and I think breaking down these myths would be something you guys would do very well. I hope this gets your attention, and you consider this.
Agreed.
What is the name of the book?
They did an episode on Cheng I Sao. Still, the best pirate story is IMO about the capture of Ceasar.
Jake sparrow was Muslim funny but true
@@kingzimmiz3720 no way, really?
It's be interesting to see a video about Al Beiruni. He travelled to India and calculated the circumference of the earth to a frightening accuracy
I'm from Baghdad 🙂🌿
*very hot* vikings.
disturbing.
And these Scandinavian men are still so hot even these days... 😍🤤 Damn! Love their genes.
@ No, he is describing the raiders and traders down the Volga river who are on the move, not a settlement, meaning the vast majority would be men.
less hot after the whole human sacrifice thing
@@farhanahmed2508 well thank you
@@Safewoood 😍😍😍
i came here on the basis of the name "Ibn" as in "Ibn Batuta but instead found a new Ibn. But still Noice
@Lobster Boi Oh! Thanks!
Usama bin Laden = Usama son of Laden.
Ibn means son of = son of fadlan ..
Ibn Batuta full name is : Muhammad bin=(son) Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Ibrahim bin Muhammad bin Yusef Al-Lawati Al-Tanji Bin Battuta
I really want you to cover more Islamic and Arab culture. I personally feel that we are incredibly hated, especially in the media (TV, news, internet). I love it when you do these episodes because it doesn't make me feel ashamed. I also would love it if you covered more about our Christian and Jewish brothers' and sisters' heritages. If you don't want to do that. That is ok.
Best Wishes
- Doodlefest
توقف عن لعب دور الضحية
@@يومفيالتاريخ الصراحة فيه كره للعرب لكن التذلل للغرب ما ينفع الي يكرهنا نكرهه
Have some self respect. Stop grovelling.
@@sa19h1j اتفق ، اذا يكرهونا كـ ـس امهم يشيخ رايهم مالهم قيمه ليه المفروض نهتم فيهم ونحاول نغير رايهم؟
2:00 the exact wording of Ibn Fadlan in Arabic in his book is (please use google translate):
ورأيتُ الروسية وقد وافو في تجارتهم ونزلوا على نهل إتل، فلم أرَ أتمَّ أبدانا منهم كأنهم النخلُ شقرٌ حمرٌ لايلبسون القراطق ولا الخفاتين ولكن يلبس الرجلُ منهم كساءً يشتمل به على أحد شقَّيه ويُخرج إحدى يديه منه ومع كل واحد منهم فأسٌ وسيفٌ وسكينٌ لا يفارقه جميع ما ذكرنا.
وسيوفهم صفائح مشطبة أفرنجية ومن حَدّ ظُفْرِ الواحد منهم إلى عنقه مخضر شجر وصور وغير ذلك.
They are ignorant they don't use a professional translator.
" As we eat from the Earth when we are alive , the Earth shall eat from us when we are dead "
Me
Pretty cool
Nice
13 warrior anyone hejejeje
Yes yes 13 warrior thank me later
Lo there do I see my father; Lo there do I see my mother and my sisters and my brothers; Lo there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning. Lo, they do call to me, they bid me take my place among them, in the halls of Valhalla, where the brave may live forever.
Need to go watch that again....
Am I going to talk about the fact that I made a video on Ibn Fadlan's account of the Rus funeral 3 years ago, maybe.
Although my take looked at the viking funeral in a more general light with it's current romanticization I do appreciate the Extra Credits' more analytical take on the writing itself. Pointing out the possible biases and or events that could have been misunderstood or over exaggerated. Things that a Historian should always consider when analyzing sources.
Nice video, btw Ibn fadlan is my favorate traveler, and as i have read his account myself (in arabic), I can tell it is FAR more intertaining and interesting than watching this wrapped up short video. One gets to see through the traveller's eyes and his own imagination, feel his impressions, smile as ibn fadlan gradually becomes a friend, and feel the horror .. specially in that sacrifice scene.
Btw i found it to be a norm of muslim travellers to describe the looks and physique of the nations they encounter, so i dont think ibn fadlan had a sexual attraction for the rus (quite funny actually), and it reminds me of a chineese account discribing the romans in similar words (perfect bodies), that is; larger/taller bodies are more powerful and kind of superior
I'm so lucky to be a native Arabic speaker. I heard about Ibn Fadlan few weeks ago and I think I'm going to read his writings now.
Did you read them?
@@animationcity8178 Sorry to disappoint you, but no I didn't read them yet.😅
@@mohammadal-tamimi6287 oh well, let us know when you read it!
@@animationcity8178 I will.
@@mohammadal-tamimi6287 well be careful with the sacrifice part.
Religion stuff step aside..can you imagine being young and full of knowledge and a traveller ? Must be nice. This is why i love reading history stuff like this.
Why religion stuff step aside lmao
So this is why Uncle Rick choose the last name "Fadlan" fro Amir in "Magnus Chase & The Gods of Asgard".
As an Arab I am so proud of our culture and our schoolars. Such masterpiece by Ibn fadlan clarifies that we were not bedoens only but rather schoolars and travelers 😍 I love Vikings as well.. Great culture
be proud of Islam not your race
@@kamranabbasi6757 he was arab not every one convert to islam will became arab you’re pakistani/indian be proud of your own history and leave other people history alone.
@@NoraJ-rt9gr technically I am from the Prophet's family, from his uncle Abbas's(R) lineage. We use to have the shajrah(lineage written down) but it got lost during partition.
Secondly, Muslims were at the pinnacle of civilization because of Islam, and not because they were Arabs.
‘Uqbah ibn ‘Amir(R) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, “Verily, these lineages of yours do not make you superior to anyone. All of you are only the children of Adam. No one is better than another except by religion and good deeds. It is enough sin for a man to be vulgar, shameless, miserly and cowardly.”
Source: Musnad Ahmad 17313
Grade: Sahih li ghayrihi (authentic due to external evidence) according to Shaykh Albani
Non muslim: oh, you are so interesting
Ibn Battuta: oh, you are so terrible
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Ibn Fadlan: oh, you are so interesting
Non muslim: oh, you are so terrible
well that s because muslims are not only 1 man but a multitude of people with different tradition and a common religion , u should not judge all the people but judgeonly the one who did the mistake
@@damergifoued6408 what? When did i say that muslims were anything
oh yeah called "humans differences"
I love these stories about people travelling in ancient and medieval world.
Allahu akbar islam ☪️ has been around and influenced the globe