 Mahmud al-Kashgari

Mahmud ibn Hussayn ibn Muhammed al-Kashgari (, "Maḥmūd ibnu 'l-Ḥussayn ibn Muḥammad al-Kāšġarī", , , "Mehmud Qeshqiri", Мәһмуд Қәшқири) was an 11th-century Kara-Khanid scholar and lexicographer of the Turkic languages from Kashgar.His father, Hussayn, 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.