The world of the Khazars : : new perspectives / / edited by Peter B. Golden, Haggai Ben-Shammai and Andras Rona-Tas.
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...
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Superior document: | Handbook of Oriental Studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section eight, Central Asia, v. 17 |
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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." |
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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.