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    Mahmud ibn Husayn ibn Muhammad al-Kashgari was an 11th-century Kara-Khanid scholar and lexicographer of the Turkic languages from Kashgar. His father,...
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    the Turkic Kara-Khanid scholar Mahmud Kashgari who extensively documented the Turkic languages of his time. Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk was intended for use by...
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    Bulgar Mahmud al-Kashgari also provides some examples of Volga Bulgar words, poems, and phrases in his dictionary.. However, Mahmud al-Kashgari himself...
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    Bozok tribal federation. In his Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, the 11th century Kara-Khanid scholar Mahmud al-Kashgari cited Kayı as of one of 22 Oghuz tribes, saying...
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    (which is about 120 km over the Khunjerab Pass from Sust in Pakistan). Mahmud al-Kashgari died in 1102 at the age of 97 in Upal. There is now a mausoleum erected...
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  • China. The name may refer to: Hamza Kashgari (born 1989), Saudi columnist with Uyghur background Mahmud al-Kashgari, eleventh century Uyghur Turkic scholar...
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  • survive in several of the extant manuscripts. Qarakhanid Uyghur scholar Mahmud al-Kashgari compiled a Compendium of the languages of the Turks in the 11th century...
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    jüz), Middle jüz, and Little jüz (or Junior jüz). Karakhanid scholar Mahmud al-Kashgari glossed Arghu as "ravine between two mountains", because the Arghu...
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    more than 95% of speakers of this sub-branch. Kara-Khanid scholar Mahmud al-Kashgari, who lived in the 11th century, stated that the Oghuz language was...
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  • (al-Tabari), Ānsa (Hudud al-'Alam), and Śaba (Ibn Khordadbeh)), and Afrasiab, whom 11th-century Karakhanid scholar Mahmud al-Kashgari identified with Turkic...
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    considers this derivation by no means certain. In Mahmud Kashgari's 11th-century work Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, Pechenegs were described as "a Turkic nation...
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  • others *ermeŕ. Arghu has δ instead of z. This is also seen in Khalaj. Mahmud Al-Kashgarî also mentioned the Khalaj (Karakhanid: خَلَج) in his Divan, but he...
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    the Oghuz group of the Turkic languages family. Kara-Khanid scholar Mahmud al-Kashgari wrote that of all the Turkic languages, that of the Oghuz was the...
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    languages. However, Mahmud al-Kashgari himself wasn't a native speaker of Volga Bulgar. Despite its limitations, Mahmud al-Kashgari's work remains an important...
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  • figure during the Second Constitutional Era. Mahmud al-Kashgari, lexicographer Uyghur scholar. Abu-Mahmud Khujandi, Transoxanian astronomer and mathematician...
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  • Yūsuf Balasaguni and the parts of the monumental Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk by Mahmud al-Kashgari. As Marcel Erdal acknowledged, the latter work is not wholly...
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    "Wisdom of Royal Glory" by Yusuf Khass Hajib (1069–70), Mahmud al-Kashgari's Dīwānu l-Luġat al-Turk, "A Dictionary of Turkic Dialects" (1072) and Ehmed...
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    "idol" in the Turkic language of Kashgari) had negative connotations to Muslim Turks. Mahmud al-Kashgari in his Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, described a game called...
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    languages Dīwānu l-Luġat al-Turk, produced by Mahmud of Kashgar, the Qiniq tribe is listed first. However, in the list arranged by Rashid-al-Din Hamadani in the...
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  • (1037–1194). For example, the word is not found in the Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk of Mahmud al-Kashgari (died 1102). The meaning of köy within the concept of an open...
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  • went to the west after the collapse of the Eastern Turkic kaganate'. Mahmud al-Kashgari noted that the Tatars are bilingual, speaking in Turkic alongside...
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    Mahmud Hasan Deobandi (also known as Shaykh al-Hind; 1851–1920) was an Indian Muslim scholar and an activist of the Indian independence movement, who co-founded...
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    Chinese sources. Turkic lexicographer Mahmud al-Kashgari wrote in his Turkic dictionary named Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, written in the 11th century, that...
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    and the geography of the regions they visited. Turkish geographer Mahmud al-Kashgari drew a world map on a linguistic basis, and later so did Piri Reis...
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    language spoken by the Kara-Khanid Khanate, as described by Mahmud al-Kashgari in the Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk. According to Gerard Clauson, Western Yugur is considered...
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  • adopted language reforms from Arabic literature. Yūsuf Balasaguni, Mahmud al-Kashgari, Ahmad Yugnaki, and Ahmad Yasawi were among the leading writers of...
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    the 11th-century appearance of the word in Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk written by Mahmud al-Kashgari in the Karakhanid language. In Mongolia, the drink is called...
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    departure of the Oghuz from the steppes north of the Black Sea.: 114  Mahmud al-Kashgari, writing in 1076, says that in the east Cuman territory bordered a...
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  • Map from Mahmud al-Kashgari's Diwan (11th century) Muhammad al-Idrisi's Tabula Rogeriana (1154), one of the most advanced early world maps Ibn al-Wardi's...
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  • Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Rāshid ibn Ḥammād, (Arabic: أحمد بن فضلان بن العباس بن راشد بن حماد; commonly known as Ahmad ibn Fadlan (or Ibn Foszlan...
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