Ferdowsi
940–1020
Persian poet, author of Shahnameh (940–1020)
writer · poet
Born in Tus
Contemporaries
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- Avicenna (980–1037)
- Murasaki Shikibu (970–)
- Al-Biruni (973–1048)
- Ibn al-Haytham (965–1039)
- Leif Erikson (972–1020)
- Otto I the Great (912–973)
- Farabi (870–951)
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