- Ishad
Ishad (or "Shad", "Sad") was an
Old Turkic word used to designate the highest-rankingGöktürk generals (e.g.,Buri-sad ). It is also used in someArabic sources to describe theKhagan Bek of theKhazars .References
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Kevin Alan Brook . "The Jews of Khazaria." 2nd ed. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2006.
*Douglas M. Dunlop . "The History of the Jewish Khazars," Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1954.
*Peter B. Golden . "Khazar Studies: An Historio-Philological Inquiry into the Origins of the Khazars." Budapest: Akademia Kiado, 1980.
*Norman Golb andOmeljan Pritsak , "Khazarian Hebrew Documents of the Tenth Century." Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1982.
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