Hazar Hakanlığı'nın Museviliğe Geçişi
The Khazar Kingdom's Conversion to Judaism
Author(s): Omeljan PritsakContributor(s): Altay Tayfun Özcan (Translator)
Subject(s): Jewish studies, Geography, Regional studies, Theology and Religion, Islam studies, History of Judaism, History of Religion
Published by: Karadeniz Araştırmaları Merkezi
Keywords: The Khazar Kingdom; Bol(ç)an; Judaism; Islam;
Summary/Abstract: The Khazars conversion to Judaism is reevaluated in the light of Byzantine and Islamic sources in this article, which was originally published in Harvard Ukranian Studies in 1978. Pritsak, who interrogates why the Khazars changed their religion and why this case do not so much attest in contemporary Judaic, Islamic and Byzantine sources, focuses on there stories of the term, and claimes that not missionaries but traders were influential in conversion.
Journal: Karadeniz Araştırmaları
- Issue Year: 2007
- Issue No: 13
- Page Range: 15-34
- Page Count: 20
- Language: Turkish