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Works published

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Births

1040:

• Muhammad Ibn Abbad Al Mutamid (died 1095), Arabic poet in Al-Andalus

1046:

• Masud Sa'd Salman (died 1121), Persian

1048:

• May 31: Omar Khayyám (died 1123), Persian polymath, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer and poet
• Mu'izzi (died 1125), Persian
• Am'aq (died 1148), Persian that carried the title amir al-shu'ara ("Amir of poets")

Deaths

1040:

• Unsuri (born unknown), Persian poet of the royal court, given the title Malik-us Shu'ara (King of Poets')
• Asjadi (born unknown), Persian
• Manuchehri (born unknown), Persian, later a royal poet in the court of Sultan Shihab ud-Dawlah Mas'ud I of Ghazni

1041:

• Akazome Emon 赤染衛門 (born 956), Japanese waka poet who lived in the mid- Heian period; a member of both the Thirty-six Elder Poetic Sages and Fujiwara no Kintō's 36 female poetry immortals (or "sages") of the Kamakura period (surname: Akazome)
• Fujiwara no Kintō (born 966), Japanese poet, publisher of the Shūi Wakashū; he created the concept of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals

1049:

• Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr (born 967), Persian
• Uthman Mukhtari (born unknown), Persian

See also

• Poetry
• 11th century in poetry
• 11th century in literature
• List of years in poetry

Other events:

• Other events of the 12th century
• Other events of the 13th century

11th century:

• 11th century in poetry
• 11th century in literature

Notes