Századok – 2019
2019 / 1. szám - TANULMÁNYOK - Sudár Balázs: A turbános morvák esete a korai magyar szállásokkal. A Hudúd al-álam és a magyar őstörténet
A TURBÁNOS MORVÁK ESETE A KORAI MAGYAR SZÁLLÁSOKKAL 100 Kazária K: egy fal a hegyek és a tenger között, a tenger és a Volga. D: Szarír. Ny: egy hegység. É: Barádász és vunundurok. Burtász K és D: Oguzok. Ny: Volga. É: Besenyők. Barádász K: Volga. D: Kazárok. Ny: Vunundur. É: Török besenyők. Vunundur K: Barádász. D: Kazárok. Ny: egy hegység. É: Madzsgarík. THE CASE OF THE TURBANED MORAVIANS AND THE EARLY HUNGARIAN SETTLEMENTS The Hudud al-’Alam and Hungarian Prehistory by Balázs Sudár SUMMARY The interpretation of the handful of sources which deal with that period of Hungarian prehistory preceding the conquest of the Carpathian Basin is burdened by several difficulties. Accordingly, any new means of interpreting even the slightest of the sources may result in a profoundly different perspective about the Hungarians’ road to their prospective homeland. The geographical work known as Hudud al -’ Alam was written by an unknown author in Persian in 982/983, somewhere on the territory of modern northern Afghanistan. The work is based on descriptions of the neighbouring peoples, and the area of settlement of the Hungarians is indicated as being west of the Volga, east of Rus, and further off to the north of the Black Sea; it is thus by no means identical to Etelköz described by Constantinus Porphyrogenitus, nor with the area defined by Ibn Rustah or Gardizi. Consequently, it appears that what the hitherto undervalued Hudud al-’Alam report refers to is not the pre-conquest Hungarian people, but some part of this group that remained in the east, and precisely in a settlement area which has so far evaded the analytical lens of researchers of Hungarian prehistory.
