Mahmud al-Kashgari
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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.
Upal, Mausoleum of Mahmud al-Kashgari
Kara-Khanid Khanate
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The Kara-Khanid Khanate, also known as the Karakhanids, Qarakhanids, Ilek Khanids or the Afrasiabids, was a Karluk Turkic khanate that ruled Central Asia from the 9th to the early 13th century. The dy
Mahmud al-Kashgari
…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…
Anikova dish: Nestorian Christian plate with decoration of the Siege of Jericho, probably made by Sogdian artists under Karluk dominion, in Semirechye. Cast silver of the 9th-10th century, copied from an original 8th century plate.
Armoured horsemen on the Anikova dish, Jetisu c. 800.
Tomb of Sultan Satuq Bughra Khan (r. 920–955 CE) the first Muslim Khan of the Kara-Khanids, in Artush, Xinjiang
The Kara-Khanid Ilig Khan (left) facing Mahmud of Ghazni riding an elephant in 1017–1018. Jami al-Tawarikh, 1306-14 (Edinburgh Or Ms 20)