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Irbis (Khazar)

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Irbis
HouseAshina
ReligionTengrism
The Pontic steppe in ca. 650, showing the early territory of the Khazars and their neighbors.

Irbis (fl. 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]

References

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  1. ^ Kevin Alan Brook (1999). The Jews of Khazaria. Jason Aronson. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-7657-6032-6.
  2. ^ Timothy Reuter; Rosamond McKitterick (1995). The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 3, C.900-c.1024. Cambridge University Press. p. 500. ISBN 978-0-521-36447-8.
  3. ^ Golden, Peter Benjamin (2006). "The Khazar Sacral Kingship". In Reyerson, Kathryn Von; Stavrou, Theofanis George; Tracy, James Donald (eds.). Pre-modern Russia and its world: Essays in Honour of Thomas S. Noonan. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 89. ISBN 978-3-447-05425-6.