Irbis (Khazar) Explained
Irbis (650 or 652) was according to a number of Russian sources the founder of the Khazar Khaganate.[1] The Khazars traced their origin to the Turkic Ashina clan who also founded the Onok Khaganate and Turkic Khaganate in Central Asia.[2]
Peter Golden notes that Chinese and Arabic reports are almost identical, making the connection a strong one, and conjectures that the Khazar leader may have been Irbis Seguy, who lost power or was killed around 651.[3]
Notes and References
- Book: Kevin Alan Brook. The Jews of Khazaria. 1999. Jason Aronson. 978-0-7657-6032-6. 69.
- Book: Timothy Reuter. Rosamond McKitterick. The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 3, C.900-c.1024. 1995. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-36447-8. 500.
- Book: Golden, Peter Benjamin . The Khazar Sacral Kingship . 2006 . Peter Benjamin Golden . Pre-modern Russia and its world: Essays in Honour of Thomas S. Noonan . Reyerson . Kathryn Von . Stavrou . Theofanis George . Tracy . James Donald . . https://books.google.com/books?id=LMwmcqwZUGcC&pg=PA79 . 978-3-447-05425-6 . 89.
