Ishad was an
Old Turkic word used to designate the highest-ranking
Göktürk generals (e.g.,
Buri-sad). It is also used in some
Arabic sources to describe the
Khagan Bek of the
Khazars. Brook,[1] citing Golden,[2] proposes that Ishad is a variant of
Shad, a Turkic title of Iranian origin.
Notes
^Brook, Kevin A. (2018). The Jews of Khazaria (3rd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 261.
^Golden, Peter B. (1980). Khazar Studies: An Historio-Philological Inquiry into the Origins of the Khazars. Vol. 1. Akadémiai Kiadó. p. 208.