2 moments

1. Refugee settlement in Baghdad

   1057-01-01 · Baghdad, Iraq

   Mahmud al-Kashgari settled in Baghdad as a political refugee. This move placed the Kara-Khanid scholar in the Abbasid capital, where he later produced his major lexicographical work. The source describes the date as around 1057; exact month and day are not known.

2. Compiling Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk

   1072-01-01 · Baghdad, Iraq

   

   In Baghdad, al-Kashgari began compiling the Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, the first comprehensive dictionary of Turkic languages. The work was compiled across 1072–1074. The source gives a 1072–1074 compilation span; this card uses the documented start year because the schema does not accept date ranges.