THE TRİBES CONSTİTATİNG THE STATE OF HEFTALİT

Year 1985, Issue: 13, 67 - 69, 27.02.2024

A. Zeki Velidi Togan Translator: A. Zeki Velidi Togan

Abstract

The names written as "Hayatile” and ”Haytal”in the Islamic historical sources
were determined by Tomaschek and F.W.K. Müller to be actually "Hâbatila”
”//abtal”. The names given in the works of Ab-Abdullah Muhammad Al-Xorezmi
(Mafâtih al-'ulûm) and İsmail al-Gavhari al-Fârâbi, (Sihâh) to the two main tribes
constituting this society and the land they lived in can only be ascertained after
collection of the manuscript copies of their works in Turkish and Western Libraries.
These were the ”Xarhx” (i.e. in Turkish Harhq- in Iranian sources ”Xallux”,
in Chinese Sources ”Galolu”, in Tibetan sources “Qarlux”, in Byzantian sources
”Khalkh”, in tribes known by the names of ”Kenga” and Qanga” ”Keng ” or
”Qang”, ”Kengin” and ”Kengak”).

Keywords

tribes, heftalit, state

THE TRIBES CONSTITATING THE STATE OF HEFTALIT

Abstract

The names written as "Hayatile” and ”Haytal”in the Islamic historical sources were determined by Tomaschek and F.W.K. Müller to be actually "Hâbatila”
”//abtal”. The names given in the works of Ab-Abdullah Muhammad Al-Xorezmi (Mafâtih al-'ulûm) and İsmail al-Gavhari al-Fârâbi, (Sihâh) to the two main tribes
constituting this society and the land they lived in can only be ascertained after collection of the manuscript copies of their works in Turkish and Western Libraries.
These were the ”Xarhx” (i.e. in Turkish Harhq- in Iranian sources ”Xallux”, in Chinese Sources ”Galolu”, in Tibetan sources “Qarlux”, in Byzantian sources
”Khalkh”, in tribes known by the names of ”Kenga” and Qanga” ”Keng ” or ”Qang”, ”Kengin” and ”Kengak”).

Keywords

heftalit, tribes, state