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    1) Almish threatens Ibn Fadlan by implying that intelligent people are sacrificed among the Rus people. He warns Ibn Fadlan that if he continues lying about money or spreading his Islamic teachings, the Rus may see him as too intelligent and worthy of being sacrificed. 2) Ibn Fadlan provides contradictory descriptions of Rus hygiene and social practices. They are described as physically perfect but filthy in their hygiene habits. Their society values the rich and privileges pleasure, greed, and satisfying desires over others. 3) Ibn Fadlan's descriptions of other groups typically discuss their religious practices, hygiene, and consequences for bad behavior. His account of the Khazars differs

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    1) Almish threatens Ibn Fadlan by implying that intelligent people are sacrificed among the Rus people. He warns Ibn Fadlan that if he continues lying about money or spreading his Islamic teachings, the Rus may see him as too intelligent and worthy of being sacrificed. 2) Ibn Fadlan provides contradictory descriptions of Rus hygiene and social practices. They are described as physically perfect but filthy in their hygiene habits. Their society values the rich and privileges pleasure, greed, and satisfying desires over others. 3) Ibn Fadlan's descriptions of other groups typically discuss their religious practices, hygiene, and consequences for bad behavior. His account of the Khazars differs

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    1) Almish threatens Ibn Fadlan by implying that intelligent people are sacrificed among the Rus people. He warns Ibn Fadlan that if he continues lying about money or spreading his Islamic teachings, the Rus may see him as too intelligent and worthy of being sacrificed. 2) Ibn Fadlan provides contradictory descriptions of Rus hygiene and social practices. They are described as physically perfect but filthy in their hygiene habits. Their society values the rich and privileges pleasure, greed, and satisfying desires over others. 3) Ibn Fadlan's descriptions of other groups typically discuss their religious practices, hygiene, and consequences for bad behavior. His account of the Khazars differs

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    11/30/23, 10:35 AM DQ Ibn Fadlan Day 3 10:30AM: Prescilla Pascua

    from DQ Ibn Fadlan Day 3 10:30AM Oct 24, 2023 2:29PM

    1) One veiled threat that Almish uses on Ibn Fadlan is the fact that intelligent people are
    sacrificed. We can infer that Almish knows that Ibn Fadlan is trying to play smart by
    lying about the money, especially when he taunts him by referring to him as, "Abu Bakr
    the Truthful" (Ibn 2012, 54). However, Almish refuses to give up the money he is expecting, so
    Ibn Fadlan is told that, "If they see a man that whose mind is lively and who knows many
    things, they say: 'This man deserves to serve our Lord'" (Ibn 2012, 58). I interpreted this as
    Almish showing Ibn Fadlan that if he continues to play out his lie about the money and spread
    his teachings about Islamic religion, then the people will eventually find him so intelligent that
    he should be sacrificed.
    2) Ibn Fadlan's descriptions of the Rus people seem to contradict each other. He first
    describes their physical appearance as beyond perfect, yet they are filthy in their hygiene. For
    example, when describing how the men of the house "clean" themselves, Ibn says that there is
    a basin passed around with filthy water, and after the master uses it to wash his hands, hair,
    and blow his nose and spit into the water, the water is reused for the rest of the men in that
    house (Ibn 2012, 64). They also practice sex in gruesome ways in which slave girls are used
    for the man's pleasure in a public setting. I think we can infer that the Rus people are greedy
    and participate in activities that satisfy their desires because they do many things for their own
    pleasure. In one instance, Ibn Fadlan describes their offerings to their idols in which they place
    the offering to their idol in exchange for a merchant with money who will buy them whatever
    they want without complaint (Ibn 2012, 65). They also tend to value the rich over the poor as
    seen in the way they bury them. The burial of a rich or noble man requires more work and
    sacrifice than that of a poor man. The funeral of a noble man is so great that one of his slave
    girls must die with him (Ibn 2012, 66). Overall, the higher up one is in their societal ladder, the
    more respect and sacrifices they earn.
    4) Ibn Fadlan keeps his descriptions in his travel documentation uniform for the most part. He
    typically starts off with which group of people he's going to be talking about, then moves into
    how they practice religion, to how "clean" they present themselves to be, and a list of
    consequences for bad behavior. The only description of a certain group that deviated from his
    typical patterns would be the Khazars, in which he only describes the norms for the King. It is
    said that, "No one, except those whom we have mentioned, have access to him" (Ibn 2012,
    71). Those who have access to him include the lieutenant and second in command man. This
    tells us that the Khazars aren't really under control of their King, but rather other positions of
    authority are to maintain laws and punishments. The King is isolated from his people and
    doesn't necessarily use his authoritative figure to govern them.
    Question: Why is there not much said about the Khazar people?

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