Mahmud al-Kashgari
1029 –1101
Lexicographer, Geographer, Dialectologist, Linguist
Lived 72 years
- Born in
- Kashgar
- Passed away in
- Upal
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.
Source: Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmud_al-Kashgari