| Title: | The World of the Khazars: New Perspectives, Selected Papers from the Jerusalem 1999 International Khazar Colloquium hosted by the Ben Zvi Institute |
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| Translator: | |
| Editor: | Edited by Peter B. Golden, Haggai Ben–Shammai and András Róna–Tas; |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section Eight: Central Asia, Vol. 17. |
| Place: | Leiden |
| Publisher: | Brill |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Pages: | VIII, 459 |
| ISBN: | 9789004160422 |
| File: | PDF, 3.87 MB |
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This volume, a product of international collaboration, presents readers with the state of the field in Khazar Studies. The Khazar Empire (ca. 650 – ca. 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
Abbreviations … vii
Introduction … 1
Opening Remarks … 3
Haggai Ben-Shammai
Khazar Studies: Achievements and Perspectives … 7
Peter B. Golden
The Alans: Neighbours of the Khazars in the Caucasus … 59
Irina A. Arzhantseva
The Khazar Language … 75
Marcel Erdal
New Findings Relating to Hebrew Epigraphic Sources from
the Crimea, with an Appendix on the Readings in King
Joseph’s Letter … 109
Artem Fedorchuk
The Conversion of the Khazars to Judaism … 123
Peter B. Golden
Byzantine Sources for Khazar History … 163
James Howard-Johnston
Al-Khazar wa-’l-Saqâliba: Contacts and Conf licts? … 195
Tatiana Kalinina
The Economy of the Khazar Khaganate … 207
Thomas S. Noonan
Khazaria and Rus’: An Examination of their Historical
Relations … 245
Vladimir Petrukhin
The Khazars and the Magyars … 269
András Róna-Tas
The Khazar Motif in the Kuzari of Judah Halevi … 279
Eliezer Schweid
Iranian Sources on the Khazars … 291
Dan Shapira
Armenian and Georgian Sources on the Khazars:
A Re-Evaluation … 307
Dan Shapira
The Story of a Euphemism: The Khazars in Russian Nationalist
Literature … 353
Victor Shnirelman
The Khazars and the World of Islam … 373
David Wasserstein
Yiddish Evidence for the Khazar Component in the Ashkenazic
Ethnogenesis … 387
Paul Wexler
The Khazars and Byzantium—The First Encounter … 399
Constantine Zuckerman
Select Bibliography … 433
Index … 447