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An 11th-century Kara-Khanid Turkic linguist and philologist; his 'Diwan Lughat al-Turk', compiled in Baghdad in 1072-74, is the first comprehensive dictionary and ethnographic survey of the Turkic languages. Per TDV he taught for many years and died at an advanced age; his death date is genuinely disputed (TDV c. 1090, a manuscript gives AH 477 = 1084-85, other sources 1102/1105). He is traditionally said to be buried beside his madrasa in Opal (Upal) village near Kashgar — an attribution resting on local records and oral tradition rather than contemporary documentation (tomb reconstructed 1985). (Sources: TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi 'Kâşgarlı Mahmud'; en.wikipedia.org 'Mahmud al-Kashgari')
Sources
- TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (DİA) — Ömer Faruk Akün · vol. 25, pp. 9-15, entry “KÂŞGARLI MAHMUD”
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