Kashgari is a Uyghur family name, meaning "the one from city of
Kashgar
Kashgar () or Kashi ( zh, c=喀什) is a city in the Tarim Basin region of southern Xinjiang, China. It is one of the westernmost cities of China, located near the country's border with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. For over 2,000 years, Kashgar ...
". Kashgar is a historic city in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous region in China. The name may refer to:
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Abdur Rahman Kashgari (1912-1971), Scholar of Uyghur background
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Hamza Kashgari (born 1989), Saudi columnist with Uyghur background
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Mahmud al-Kashgari
Mahmud ibn Husayn ibn Muhammad al-Kashgari; ; , Мәһмуд Қәшқири; , Махмуд Қашғарий was an 11th-century Kara-Khanid scholar and lexicographer of the Turkic languages from Kashgar.
His father, Husayn, was the mayor of ...
, eleventh century Uyghur Turkic scholar from Kashgar
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Uyghur-language surnames