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...

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.