The Khazars as ‘Sons of Abraham’

• Published in: Хазарский альманах
• Date: 2016
• Main Author: Golden, P.B.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Інститут сходознавства ім. А. Ю. Кримського НАН України 2016
• Subjects: Статьи и публикации
• Online Access: https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/171777
• Journal Title: Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Cite this: The Khazars as ‘Sons of Abraham’ / P.B. Golden // Хазарский альманах. — 2016. — Т. 14. — С. 322-348. — Бібліогр.: 112 назв. — англ.

The accounts of Ibn Sa‘d, Ibn al-Faqîh and al-Tabarî, going back to Hišâm ibn al-Kalbî (late eighth-early ninth century), a contemporary of one of the culminating stages in the conversion of the Khazars to Judaism, are pious legends put forward to claim a link of the Khazars directly to Abraham’s (A...