Mahmud al-Kashgari

thumb|Wax statue of Muslim Polymath Mahmud al-Kashgari on display at Istanbul Sapphire, İstanbul, Turkey. Mahmud ibn Hussayn ibn Muhammed al-Kashgari (Arabic: محمود بن الحسين بن محمد الكاشغري‎, Maḥmūd ibnu 'l-Ḥussayn ibn Muḥammad al-Kāšġarī, Turkish: Kaşgarlı Mahmûd, Uyghur: مەھمۇد قەشقىرى‎‎, Mehmud Qeshqiri, Мәһмуд Қәшқири) was an 11th-century Kara-Khanid scholar and lexicographer of the Turkic languages from Kashgar. Quotes We came down on them like a flood,We went out among their cities,We tore down the idol-temples,We shat on the Buddha's head! Translation: English translation from the Turkic language. The Karakhanid Turkic Muslim writer Mahmud al-Kashgari recorded this short poem (in Turkic language) about the conquest of Khotan. Attributed to Mahmud al-Kashgari in : Elverskog, Johan (2010). Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-8122-4237-9. External links Category:1000s births Category:1100s deaths Category:Geographers Category:Linguists Category:Lexicographers Category:Polymaths Category:Non-fiction authors