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

• Superior document: Handbook of Oriental Studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section eight, Central Asia, v. 17
• Author: Mekhon Ben-Tsevi le-heker kehilot Yisrael ba-Mizrah.
• TeilnehmendeR: Golden, Peter B.; Ben-Shammai, Haggai.; Rona-Tas, Andras.; Mekhon Ben-Tsevi le-heker kehilot Yisrael ba-Mizrah.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Handbuch der Orientalistik. Handbook of Uralic studies ; v. 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (468 p.)
• Notes: "Selected papers from the Jerusalem 1999 international Khazar colloquium hosted by the Ben Zvi Institute."

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.

Table of 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.