Anikyeyev D. The information of the Arab geographers of the 9th-10th centuries about the nomad migrations in Early Medieval Europe

Object: Arabic-language sources of the 9th - 10th centuries about the history of the nomads in Early Medieval Europe; purpose: to elicit and analyze the accounts that are contained in Arabic geographic works of the 9th - 10th centuries about the steppe nomadic communities and the stages of their migration within the Caspian Sea and Transurals regions, South-East and Central Europe; methods: selection, systematization and textual analysis of the fragments of the researched written documents, historical and structured method, historical and genetic method, historical and philological method, terminological analysis; findings: accounts of Arabic geographic works about the nomad migrations within the steppe zone of Early Medieval Europe have been studied; a wide range of the original Arabic-language materials about the history of nomads has been selected, systematized and analyzed; primary, intermediate and final areas populated by the Iranian-language and Ugro-Turkic tribes have been discovered; novelty: Arabic geographic works of the 9th - 10th centuries about the nomad migrations within the steppe zone of East and Central Europe have been fully analyzed for the first time ever; perceptions of Arabic geographical authors of the 9th - 10th centuries about the ancestral home of the Iranian-language ethnic groups as a unified ethnic area of the Aorsi, Asi and Alans have been reconstructed; information value of the accounts of Arabic-language authors about the peculiarities of migration processes of the Alans, Iazyges, Bulgars, Magyars and Pechenegs within the East Europe steppes has been ascertained; branch of knowledge: Historiography, Source Studies and Special Historical Disciplines.