The world of the Khazars : new perspectives / edited by Peter B. Golden, Haggai Ben-Shammai and Andras Rona-Tas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Golden, Peter B.

Ben-Shammai, Haggai.

Róna-Tas, András.

Mekhon Ben-Tsevi le-heker kehilot Yisrael ba-Mizrah.

Series:

Handbuch der Orientalistik. Handbook of Uralic studies ; Achte Abteilung, v. 17.

Handbook of Oriental Studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section eight, Central Asia, 0169-8524 ; v. 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Khazars--History--Congresses.

Khazars.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (468 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume, a product of international collaboration, presents readers with the state of the field in Khazar Studies. The Khazar Empire (ca. 650 - circa 965-969), one of the largest states of medieval Eurasia, extended from the Middle Volga lands in the north to the Northern Caucasus and Crimea in the south and from the Ukrainians steppelands to the western borders of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in the east. Turkic in origin, it played a key role in the history of the peoples of Rus’, medieval Hungary and the Caucasus. Khazaria became one of the great trans-Eurasian trading terminals connecting the northern forest zones with Byzantium and the Arabian Caliphate. In the ninth century, the Khazars converted to Judaism. This book sheds new light on many unanswered, but fundamental questions regarding the Khazar Empire, so important in medieval Eurasia.

Contents:

Preliminary material / P.B. Golden , H. Ben-Shammai and A. Roná-Tas

Introduction / P.B. Golden , H. Ben-Shammai and A. Roná-Tas

Opening remarks / Haggai Ben-Shammai

Khazar studies: Achievements and perspectives / Peter B. Golden

The Alans: Neighbours of the khazars in the Caucasus / Irina A. Arzhantseva

The Khazar language / Marcel Erdal

New findings relating to hebrew epigraphic sources from the Crimea,with an appendix on the readings in king Joseph’s letter / Artem Fedorchuk

The conversion of the khazars to judaism / Peter B. Golden

Byzantine sources for Khazar history / James Howard-Johnston

Al-Khazar and aṣ-Ṣaqâliba: Contacts and Conflicts? / Tatiana Kalinina

Some observations on the economy of the Khazar Khaganate / Thomas S. Noonan

Khazaria and Rus’: An examination of their historical relations / Vladimir Petrukhin

The khazars and the magyars / András Róna-Tas

The khazar motif in the Kuzari of Judah Halevi / Eliezer Schweid

Iranian sources on the khazars / Dan Shapira

Armenian and georgian sources on the khazars: A re-evaluation / Dan Shapira

The story of a euphemism: The khazars in russian nationalist literature / Victor Shnirelman

The khazars and the world of Islam / David Wasserstein

Yiddish evidence for the khazar component in the Ashkenazic Ethnogenesis / Paul Wexler

The khazars and Byzantium—The first encounter / Constantine Zuckerman

The Two sources of Movses Dasxuranc’I on Heraclius’ campaign / P.B. Golden , H. Ben-Shammai and A. Roná-Tas

The khazars’ appearance north-west of the Caspian: Whence? / P.B. Golden , H. Ben-Shammai and A. Roná-Tas

The khazars’ appearance north-west of the Caspian: When? / P.B. Golden , H. Ben-Shammai and A. Roná-Tas

Select bibliography / P.B. Golden , H. Ben-Shammai and A. Roná-Tas

Index / P.B. Golden , H. Ben-Shammai and A. Roná-Tas.

Notes:

"Selected papers from the Jerusalem 1999 international Khazar colloquium hosted by the Ben Zvi Institute."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-445) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-93598-0

9786611935986

90-474-2145-0

OCLC:

646789973

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004160422.i-460 DOI