Ahmad ibn Fadlan ibn al-Abbas ibn Rašid ibn Hammad was a 10th-century Arab traveler, famous for his account of his travels as a member of an embassy of the Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad to the ruler of Bulgars. His account is most known for providing a description of the rus people, including an eyewitness account of a ship burial. He provided descriptions for various other peoples, most notably Turkic peoples such as the Oghuzes, Pechenegs, Bashkirs, and Khazars.