Mahmud al-Kashgari
Turkic scholar and lexicographer · China · Academics · Lived 1029 to 1101 · aged 72
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Something wrong?An 11th-century scholar who compiled the first comprehensive dictionary of the Turkic languages - a monumental work that mapped an entire family of tongues most of the literate world had never bothered to write down.
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, We came down on them like a flood, We went out among their cities, We tore down the idol-temples, We shat on the Buddha's head!
About this person
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.
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