Mahmud al-Kashgari's Turkic world map
Mapamundi turco de Mahmud al-Kashgari
- Date
- c. 1076-1077 · confidence medium
- Place
- Baghdad, Iraq
- Credited to
- Mahmud al-Kashgari
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What it is
A circular map included in his dictionary of the Turkic languages, placing the regions and tribes of Central Asia at the centre of the inhabited world. It is the first surviving map drawn from the Turkic world's viewpoint.
The Diwan Lughat al-Turk was finished around 1077 in Baghdad; the map is known from a late copy (13th century). The place of writing is Baghdad, not Kashgar.
What it led to
- a Turkic geographic image of Central Asia and its tribes
- evidence of non-Ptolemaic Islamic cartography