Mahmud Kashgari

Mahmud ibn Hussayn ibn Muhammad al-Kashgari (Arabic: محمود بن الحسين بن محمد الكاشغري‎ - Maḥmūd ibnu 'l-Ḥussayn ibn Muḥammad al-Kāšġarī, Turkish: 'Kaşgarlı Mahmut' ,Uyghur: مەھمۇد قەشقىرى) was an 11th century Turkic scholar and lexicographer of Turkic languages from Kashgar. His father, Hussayn, was the mayor of Barsgan and related to the Qara-Khanid ruling dynasty. Al-Kashgari studied the Turkic dialects of his time and wrote the first comprehen... more

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