This page is part of the List of years in poetry. The List of years in poetry and List of years in literature provide snapshots of developments in poetry and literature worldwide in a given year, decade or century, and allow easy access to a wide range of Wikipedia articles about movements, writers, works and developments in any timeframe. Please help to build these lists by adding and updating entries as you use them. You can access pages for individual years within the century through the navigational template at the bottom of this page, and you can access pages for other centuries through the navigational template to the right. To access the poetry pages by way of a single chart, please see the Centuries in poetry page or the List of years in poetry page. Years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" articles. Arabic and Persian World Events Golden age of Jewish culture in the Iberian Peninsula While imprisoned in Constantinople, from November 962 (or earlier) to 966, Abu Firas al-Hamdani writes some of his finest poetry, the collection known as al-Rūmiyyāt Poets Rabi'a Balkhi (10th century) Asjadi (10th/11th century) Farrukhi Sistani (10th/11th century) Kisai Marvazi (10th century) Ayyuqi (10th century) Lubna of Cordoba (10th century) Births of Arabic-world poets Abu-Shakur Balkhi (915– ) Abu Firas al-Hamdani (c.932–968) Al-Mutanabbi (915–965) Ferdowsi (فردوسی), poet (935–1020) Abu Mansur Daqiqi (935/942–976/980) Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani (967–1007) Abu ibn Abd Allah al-Ma'arri (973–1057) Samuel ibn Naghrillah (993–after 1056) Wallada bint al-Mustakfi (994–1091) Deaths of Arabic-world poets Abdullah ibn al-Mu'tazz (861–908) Ibn Duraid (837–934) Mansur al-Hallaj (died 922) Al-Sanawbari (died 945) Al-Mutanabbi (915–965) Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (897–967) Muhammad bin Hani al Andalusi al Azdi, (died 973) Abu Mansur Daqiqi (935/942–976/980) Works Publication of the Kitab al-Aghani or Book of Songs collecting important 9th century Arabic poetry and songs. Abu-Shakur Balkhi, Āfarin nama (944) Celtic and Germanic Europe Events "Age of the Sagays" - most of the events described in the Norse and Icelandic Sagas date to the period from 930 to 1030 CE. The Rhyming Poem, included in the Exeter Book, is the first record of rhyming in English poetry. Poets Deor, a scop, writes his Lament 10th century Norse and Icelandic skalds for which exact dates are unavailable: Eilífr Goðrúnarson, author of Þórsdrápa Einarr Helgason Eysteinn Valdason Eyvindr skáldaspillir, author of Hákonarmál and Háleygjatal Guthormr sindri, author of Hákonardrápa Egill Skalla-Grímsson (c. 910 –