Turks and Khazars - Origins, Institutions, and Interactions in Pre-Mongol Eurasia

Informationen zum Autor Peter B. Golden is Professor Emeritus and Academic Director! Center for Middle Eastern Studies! Rutgers University! USA Zusammenfassung A second collection of studies that continues the author's explorations of the Turk Empire (mid-sixth to mid-eight centuries), the stateless polities that appeared after its collapse, and of the Khazar Qaghanate (mid-seventh century to ca 965-969), its imperial successor state in the western Eurasian steppes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface; Turks: origins and expansion; A Qaracay Nart tale of lupine origins: an echo of the Ašina tradition?; The Türk imperial tradition in the pre-Chinggisid era; The nomadic linguistic impact on pre-Cinggisid Rus' and Georgia; Nomads in the sedentary world: the case of the pre-Chinggisid Rus' and Georgia; The terminology of slavery and servitude in medieval Turkic; Some notes on the comitatus in medieval Eurasia with special reference to the Khazars; Khazar Turkic ghulâms in caliphal service; Khazar Turkic ghulâms in caliphal service: onomastic notes; Irano-Turcica: the Khazar sacral kingship revisited; The conversion of the Khazars to Judaism; Addenda and corrigenda; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Peter B. Golden, Golden Peter B.
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2010
• EAN: 9781409400035
• ISBN: 978-1-4094-0003-5
• No. of pages: 370
• Series: Variorum Collected Studies; Variorum Collected Studies Series; Variorum Collected Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia, Central Asia, Asian History