Years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" articles. Europe Events The surviving Beowulf manuscript likely dates to the early 11th century. Emergence of Occitan as a literary language and of the first troubadors. King Bleddyn ap Cynfyn enacts new laws regulating the activities of Welsh bards and musicians around 1070. Earliest possible date for The Song of Roland Poets Boyan, an early skald of Rus'. Bersi Skáldtorfuson flourishes in Iceland at the beginning of the century. He is captured at the naval Battle of Nesjar in 1016 and imprisoned. Byzantine Empire Poets Christopher of Mytilene John Mauropous The Arabic World Poets Al-Saraqusti al-Jazzar, (11th century) Samuel ibn Naghrillah (993–after 1056) Births in the Arabic world al-Sharif al-Radi, (born 1016) Ibn Ammar (c. 1031–1086) Ibn Khafajah, (born 1039) Moses ibn Ezra (c. 1055–1138), Hebrew poet in Al-Andalus Ibn Quzman (1078–1160) Deaths in the Arab world Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani (967–1007) Abu ibn Abd Allah al-Ma'arri (973–1057) Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad (Muhammad Ibn Abbad Al Mutamid) (1040–1095), poet-ruler in Al-Andalus Ibn Ammar (c. 1031–1086), in Al-Andalus (killed by Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad) Wallada bint al-Mustakfi (994–1091) The Turkic World Oral traditions of Epic of Köroğlu Uyghur poet Yusuf Khass Hajib of Balasagun in the Kara-Khanid Khanate completes the Kutadgu Bilig ("The Wisdom Which Brings Good Fortune") and presents it to the prince of Kashgar in 462 (1069/1070 AD) Persia Works Firdawsi's Shahnameh is published in the first decade of the century Qabus-Nama Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam dates to the end of the century Shahryar-Nama, attributed to Uthman Mukhtari Siyasatnama Persian poets Baba Taher Rabi'a Balkhi, an early women poet Asad Gorgani Asjadi Ferdowsi, poet (925–1020) Omar Khayyám, poet (1048–1131) Hujviri (died 1073) Abusaeid Abolkheir (967–1049) Sanai Ghaznavi Abdul Qadir Jilani Manuchihri Sanaayi Abolfazl Beyhaghi, historian Naser Khosrow, traveller, writer and poet Farrokhi Sistani (فرخی سيستانی), poet Baba Tahir Oryan Rabi'ah Quzdari Abu-al-faraj Runi The author of Eskandar name the epic of Alexander (Novel) Keykavus Eskandar Nizam al-Mulk, author of Siyasatnama Tartusi novelist Azraqi Masud Sa'd Salman Uthman Mukhtari Qatran Tabrizi Mughatil ibn Bakri Asadi Tusi Surabadi Nizami Arudhi Samarqandi Imam Muhammad Ghazali Mohammad Raduyani Abhari Abu l-Abbas Rabinjani Abu-Ali Osmani Abul-Ma'ali India Events Beginning of Hoysala literature in Kannada and Sanskrit Nannayya, Aadi Kavi ("the first poet"), around 1022 begins work on Andhra Mahabharatam, a translation of the Mahabharata into Telugu and the first work of Telugu literature Works Ramavataram (or earlier) Poets Kambar,