Also known as Mahmud ibn Husayn ibn Muhammed al-Kashgari, Mahmud ibn Husayn ibn Muhammad al-Kashgari
Turkic scholar and lexicographer
Mahmud al-Kashgari was a medieval Turkic scholar and lexicographer who created one of the earliest comprehensive dictionaries of the Turkic language. His work is historically important because it provides valuable linguistic and cultural information about Turkic peoples and their languages during the 11th century.
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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.
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