藤原俊成女、, also 藤原俊成卿女、皇(太)后宮大夫俊成(卿)女, 越部禅尼 (c. 1171 – c. 1252), called the greatest female poet of her day, ranked with Princess Shikishi; her grandfather was the poet Fujiwara no Shunzei Ton'a 頓阿 also spelled as "Tonna"; lay name: Nikaidō Sadamune 二階堂貞宗 (1289–1372), poet and Buddhist monk Korea U Tak (1262–1342) Byzantine Empire Aaron ben Joseph of Constantinople (c. 1260 – c. 1320) Persia and Persian language Persian-language poets Attar of Nishapur, poet (c. 1130 – c. 1230) Rumi, poet (1207–1273) Sultan Walad Saadi Shirazi, poet (1184–1283/1291?) Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, (1247–1318) Amir Khusrow Shams Tabrizi Ruzbihan Baqli Zahed Gilani Khwaju Kermani Mahmoud Shabestari Najm al-Din Razi Muhammad Aufi Qazi Beiza'i Awhadi Maraghai Auhaduddin Kermani Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din Ibn Yamin Ata-Malik Juvayni Sharaf al-Din Harun Juvayni Arab world Busiri (Abū 'Abdallāh Muhammad ibn Sa'īd ul-Būsīrī Ash Shadhili, 1211–1294) writes Qaṣīda al-Burda (, "Poem of the Mantle") in praise of the prophet Muhammad Ibn Sahl of Seville (1212–1251) Al-Shabb al-Zarif al-Tilimsani (d. 1289) South Asia Andayya writes Kabbigara Kava ("Poets' Defender") (1217–1235) in Kannada Amir Khusro (1253–1325) writes poetry primarily in Persian, but also in Hindavi Dnyaneshwar (1275–1296) writes the Dnyaneshwari at age 15 or 16 and also the Amrutanubhav in Marathi (ovi metre) and his sister Muktabai (1279–1297) writes abhang poetry Changdev Maharaj writes abhang poetry in Marathi Raghavanka writes Harishchandra Kavya (c.1200 or c.1225) in Kannada Palkuriki Somanatha probably writes in Telugu, Kannada and Sanskrit Sub-saharan Africa Period of the Epic of Sundiata, transmitted through oral tradition. Decades and years References 01 Poetry by century