Mahmud al-Kashgari
Maḥmūd al-Kashgari | |
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| محمود الكاشغري | |
Upal, Mausoleum of Mahmud al-Kashgari | |
| Born | 1005 Barsgan (now Kyrgyzstan), Kara-Khanid Khanate |
| Died | 1102 (aged 97) Upal, Kara-Khanid Khanate |
| Resting place | Upal, China |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Linguistics, Lexicography, Turkology |
Mahmud ibn Husayn ibn Muhammad al-Kashgari 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.