Mahmud al-Kashgari

Maḥmūd al-Kashgari
محمود الكاشغري
Upal, Mausoleum of Mahmud al-Kashgari
Born	1005 CE Kashgar, Kara-Khanid Khanate, now China
Died	1102 CE Upal, Kara-Khanid Khanate, now China
Nationality	Kara-Khanid
Scientific career
Fields	Linguistics, Lexicography, Turkology

Mahmud ibn Husayn ibn Muhammad al-Kashgari^[a] was an 11th-century Kara-Khanid scholar and lexicographer of the Turkic languages from Kashgar.

His father, Husayn, was the mayor of Barsgan, a town in the southeastern part of the lake of Issyk-Kul (nowadays village of Barskoon in Northern Kyrgyzstan's Issyk-Kul Region) and related to the ruling dynasty of Kara-Khanid Khanate. Around 1057 C.E., Mahmud al-Kashgari became a political refugee, before settling down in Baghdad.^[1]

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