The methodology seeks to treat the events in the study of "The Maqama" within the historical and analytical context of the Algerian prose around the 19th and the 20th Centuries respectively. The present paper is based on ...

Ahmad Ibn Fadlan's journey from Baghdad through the lands of the Turks, the Khazars, the Saqaliba, the Baskirs, the Rus and then up to Scandinavian countries (or the Northmen), in the tenth century (AD 922), unveils the ...