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Mahmud Kashgari

Type Figure Region Central Asia Time c. 1005–1102 Also known as Mahmud al-Kashgari、Mahmud ibn Husayn、Mahmud Kashgari

Mahmud Kashgari was an 11th-century master of Turkic literature and linguistics, born around 1005 in Kashgar and dying around 1102 in Kash.

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  1. 1051–1055Kashgar · KashgarMahmud came from a scholarly family in Kashgar and received religious and linguistic training in the Karakhanid Islamic-Turkic cultural environment, gaining broad exposure to local and passing merchants' Turkic dialects, laying the corpus and field-observation foundation for his later compilation of the Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk.
  2. 1056–1060Semirechye · SemirechyeFrom the mid-to-late 1050s, Mahmud began traveling among Turkic-speaking peoples in Central Asia, recording dialect differences, tribal customs, and geographical observations. Though not yet a book, this stage formed the core field material of the Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, reflecting the 11th-century Central Asian tradition of cross-ethnic knowledge gathering.

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