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birthDate: "1029"
deathDate: "1101"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Mahmud ibn Husayn ibn Muhammad al-Kashgari came from Kashgar, son of the mayor of Barsgan, a town near Issyk-Kul, and connected by blood to the Kara-Khanid ruling house. Around 1057 he became a political refugee and made his way to Baghdad. There he undertook his life's work: a vast lexicon of Turkic languages, drawing on the speech of peoples across Central Asia, arranging words and grammar with the care of someone preserving what might otherwise vanish from the record. It was scholarship as an act of preservation, and it survives as a primary window into the medieval Turkic world.