Format:
1 online resource (468 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789047421450
Series Statement:
Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8 Uralic and Central Asian Studies v.17
Content:
The Khazar Empire was one of the major states of medieval Eurasia. Drawing on a variety of disciplines (history, linguistics, archaeology, literary studies), the papers in this volume shed new light on many of the disputed topics in Khazar history.
Content:
Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 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 wa-'l-Saqâliba: Contacts and Conflicts? (Tatiana Kalinina) -- 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) -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004160422
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004160422
Language:
English
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