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Mahmud al-Kashgari

1029 - 1101

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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, Husayn, was the mayor of Barsgan, a town in the southeastern part of the lake of Issyk-Kul (nowadays village of Barskoon in Northern Kyrgyzstan's Issyk-Kul Region) and related to the ruling dynasty of Kara-Khanid Khanate. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mahmud al-Kashgari has received more than 264,453 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Mahmud al-Kashgari is the 4th most popular linguist (up from 6th in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from China (up from 49th in 2019) and the most popular Chinese Linguist.

Mahmud al-Kashgari is most famous for translating the Quran into the Turkic language.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Mahmud al-Kashgari ranks 4 out of 214. Before him are Ferdinand de Saussure, Noam Chomsky, and Max Müller. After him are Antoine Meillet, William James Sidis, Roman Jakobson, Noah Webster, Edgar de Wahl, Mesrop Mashtots, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, and Franz Bopp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1029, Mahmud al-Kashgari ranks 2. Before him is Alp Arslan. After him are Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī, Al-Mustansir Billah, Vseslav of Polotsk, and Theodosius of Kiev. Among people deceased in 1101, Mahmud al-Kashgari ranks 1. After him are Roger I of Sicily, Bruno of Cologne, Su Shi, John Skylitzes, Hugh, Count of Vermandois, Conrad II of Italy, Akka Mahadevi, Emperor Daozong of Liao, Su Song, Welf I, Duke of Bavaria, and Vseslav of Polotsk.

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In China

Among people born in China, Mahmud al-Kashgari ranks 40 out of 1,610. Before him are Emperor Taizong of Tang (598), Yongle Emperor (1360), Hongwu Emperor (1328), Nurhaci (1559), Zhu Xi (1130), and Zhou Enlai (1898). After him are Lu Xun (1881), Emperor Wu of Han (-156), Emperor Gaozu of Han (-256), Toshiro Mifune (1920), Hong Taiji (1592), and Yongzheng Emperor (1678).

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Among LINGUISTS In China

Among linguists born in China, Mahmud al-Kashgari ranks 1. After him are Yuen Ren Chao (1892).

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