10th century in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in the 10th century.

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Works

Title	Author	Description	Date
class="wikitable sortable"
Book of Fixed Stars	{{sort\|Sufi, Abd Al-Rahman\|Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi}}	Treatise on astronomy including a star catalogue and star charts	{{sort\|964\|{{circa}} 964}}{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vOUWfhBheDIC&q=book+of+fixed+stars+964&pg=PA121\|chapter='Abdul-Rahmān al-Şūfī and his Book of the Fixed Stars: A Journey of Re-discovery\|first1=Ihsan\|last1=Hafez\|first2=F. Richard\|last2=Stephenson\|author-link2=F. Richard Stephenson\|first3=Wayne\|last3=Orchiston\|page=121\|title=Highlighting the History of Astronomy in the Asia-Pacific Region: Proceedings of the ICOA-6 Conference\|publisher=Springer\|editor1-first=Wayne\|editor1-last=Orchiston\|editor2-first=Tsuko\|editor2-last=Nakamura\|editor3-first=Richard G.\|editor3-last=Strom\|date=31 August 2011\|access-date=15 August 2012\|isbn=978-1441981608\|location=New York}}
The Pillow Book	Sei Shōnagon	diary / journal / memoire	{{Circa\|990s-1000s}} Japan
Kavijanasrayam	Malliya Rechana	Telugu poetic prosody book	{{Circa\|900-950}}
Paphnutius	Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim	Play	{{Circa\|935}}-1002
{{Lang\|kn-latn\|Vikramarjuna Vijaya}}	Adikavi Pampa	Kannada version of the epic Mahabharata	{{Circa\|939}}?
Al-Tasrif	Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi	Medical encyclopedia	{{sort\|1000\|Completed in 1000}}{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Zp_5IydPGgC&q=al-tasrif+1000&pg=PA81\|title=Illustrated Dictionary of the Muslim World\|date=1 September 2010\|access-date=15 August 2012\|publisher=Marshall Cavendish Reference\|page=81\|location=Tarrytown, New York\|isbn=978-0761479291\|editor1-first=Felicity\|editor1-last=Crowe\|editor2-first=Jolyon\|editor2-last=Goddard\|editor3-first=Ben\|editor3-last=Holingum\|editor4-first=Sally\|editor4-last=MacEachern\|editor5-first=Henry\|editor5-last=Russell\|chapter=Abu al-Qasim, Khalaf az-Zahrawi (936–1013)}}
Josippon	Joseph ben Gorion	History of the Jews from the destruction of Babylon to the Siege of Jerusalem	940{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8835-joseph-ben-gorion\|title=Joseph ben Gorion (Josephus Gorionides; referred to also as Yosippon and Pseudo-Josephus)\|encyclopedia=Jewish Encyclopedia\|year=1906\|access-date=19 August 2012}}
Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity	Brethren of Purity	Philosophical-scientific encyclopedia	{{sort\|900\|10th century}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SaJlbWK_-FcC&q=Encyclopedia+of+the+Brethren+of+Purity&pg=PA346\|encyclopedia=Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine: An Encyclopedia\|page=346\|title=Microcosm/macrocosm\|first=Mauro\|last=Zonta\|editor1-first=Thomas F.\|editor1-last=Glick\|editor1-link=Thomas F. Glick\|editor2-first=Steven J.\|editor2-last=Livesey\|editor3-first=Faith\|editor3-last=Wallis\|date=29 September 2005\|access-date=17 August 2012\|publisher=Routledge\|location=London\|isbn=0415969301}}
Aleppo Codex	{{sort\|Buya'aa\|Shlomo ben Buya'aa}}	Copy of the Bible	920{{cite news\|url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/fragment-of-ancient-parchment-from-bible-given-to-jerusalem-scholars-1.232641\|title=Fragment of ancient parchment from Bible given to Jerusalem scholars\|date=6 November 2007\|access-date=15 August 2012\|work=Haaretz\|location=Tel Aviv\|first=Anshel\|last=Pfeffer}}
{{Lang\|la\|De Administrando Imperio}}	Constantine VII	Political geography of the world	{{sort\|950\|{{Circa\|950}}}}{{cite web\|url=http://faculty.washington.edu/dwaugh/rus/texts/constp.html\|title=Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De Administrando Imperio\|access-date=14 August 2012\|publisher=University of Washington\|first=Daniel C.\|last=Waugh\|author-link=Daniel Waugh (historian)}}
Three Treatises on Imperial Military Expeditions	{{sort\|Constantine VII\|Associated with Constantine VII}}	Treatises providing information on military campaigns in Asia Minor	{{sort\|900\|Based on material compiled in the early 10th century, current form dates to the late 950s}}{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jyKBVmLQzHoC&q=Three+Treatises+on+Imperial+Military+Expeditions&pg=PA156\|title=The Byzantine World\|date=15 February 2009\|access-date=15 August 2012\|publisher=Taylor & Francis\|pages=155–156\|chapter=Byzantine military manuals: prescriptions, practice and pedagogy\|first=Denis F.\|last=Sullivan\|editor-first=Paul\|editor-last=Stephenson\|location=Abingdon, Oxon\|isbn=978-0415440103}}
Geoponica	{{sort\|Constantine VII\|Compiled under the patronage of Constantine VII}}	Agricultural manual{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uzTcB8yMnrcC&q=geoponica&pg=PA105\|page=105\|title=The Diet of John the Baptist: "Locusts and Wild Honey" in Synoptic and Patristic Interpretation\|year=2005\|access-date=18 August 2012\|first=James A.\|last=Kelhoffer\|publisher=Mohr Siebeck\|location=Tübingen\|isbn=3161484606}}	{{sort\|900\|Compiled in its present form in the 10th century}}{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X7KbAu6_JJMC&q=geoponica+10th+century&pg=PA121\|title=Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources for His Life, Writings, Thought and Influence\|year=1995\|access-date=15 August 2012\|publisher=Brill Publishers\|location=Leiden\|isbn=9004101748\|first=R. W.\|last=Sharples\|page=121}}
{{sort\|Thorsdrapa\|Þórsdrápa}}	{{sort\|Eilifr Godrunarson\|Eilífr Goðrúnarson}}{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GX9iTl6l_PEC&q=%C3%9E%C3%B3rsdr%C3%A1pa&pg=PA202\|page=202\|title=Fornaldarsagaerne: Myter og virkelighed\|editor1-first=Agneta\|editor1-last=Ney\|editor2-first=Ármann\|editor2-last=Jakobsson\|editor3-first=Annette\|editor3-last=Lassen\|chapter=The Fantasy Giantess: Brana in Hálfdanar saga Brönufǫstra\|first=John\|last=McKinnell\|publisher=Museum Tusculanum Press\|location=Copenhagen\|year=2009\|access-date=17 September 2012\|isbn=978-8763525794}}	Skaldic poem with Thor as its protagonist	{{sort\|900\|10th century}}{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7MaxusRNVGkC&q=%C3%9E%C3%B3rsdr%C3%A1pa&pg=PA47\|title=Myths of the Pagan North: The Gods of the Norsemen\|page=47\|first=Christopher\|last=Abram\|publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group\|location=London\|date=5 May 2011\|access-date=17 September 2012\|isbn=978-1847252470}}
{{sort\|Hakonarmal\|Hákonarmál}}	{{sort\|Eyvindr skaldaspillir\|Eyvindr skáldaspillir}}	Poem composed in memory of Haakon I of Norway	{{sort\|900\|After 961}}{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gjq6rvoIRpAC&q=H%C3%A1konarm%C3%A1l&pg=PT107\|title=Old Norse Religion in Long-Term Perspectives: Origins, Changes & Interactions\|page=277\|chapter=The generic aspect of the Eddic style\|first=Bernt Øyvind\|last=Thorvaldsen\|editor1-first=Anders\|editor1-last=Andrén\|editor2-first=Kristina\|editor2-last=Jennbert\|editor3-first=Catharina\|editor3-last=Raudvere\|publisher=Nordic Academic Press\|location=Lund\|date=1 December 2006\|access-date=20 September 2012\|isbn=918911681X}}
{{sort\|Haleygjatal\|"Háleygjatal"}}	{{sort\|Eyvindr skaldaspillir\|Eyvindr skáldaspillir}}	Poem seeking to establish the Hlaðir dynasty as the social equal of the Hárfagri dynasty{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9a6Ug6j_djcC&q=H%C3%A1leygjatal&pg=PA33\|page=33\|chapter=Origin Myths and Rulership. From the Viking Age Ruler to the Ruler of Medieval Historiography: Continuity, Transformations and Innovations\|first=Gro\|last=Steinsland\|author-link=Gro Steinsland\|title=Ideology and Power in the Viking and Middle Ages: Scandinavia, Iceland, Ireland, Orkney and the Faeroes\|editor1-first=Gro\|editor1-last=Steinsland\|editor2-first=Jón Viðar\|editor2-last=Sigurðsson\|editor3-first=Jan Erik\|editor3-last=Rekdal\|editor4-first=Ian\|editor4-last=Beuermann\|publisher=Brill Publishers\|location=Leiden\|date=21 April 2011\|access-date=20 September 2012\|isbn=978-9004205062}}	{{sort\|1000\|End of the 10th century}}{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9a6Ug6j_djcC&q=H%C3%A1leygjatal&pg=PA82\|page=82\|chapter=Kings, Earls and Chieftains. Rulers in Norway, Orkney and Iceland c. 900–1300\|first=Jón Viðar\|last=Sigurðsson\|title=Ideology and Power in the Viking and Middle Ages: Scandinavia, Iceland, Ireland, Orkney and the Faeroes\|editor1-first=Gro\|editor1-last=Steinsland\|editor2-first=Jón Viðar\|editor2-last=Sigurðsson\|editor3-first=Jan Erik\|editor3-last=Rekdal\|editor4-first=Ian\|editor4-last=Beuermann\|publisher=Brill Publishers\|location=Leiden\|date=21 April 2011\|access-date=20 September 2012\|isbn=978-9004205062}}
Kitab al-Aghani	{{sort\|Faraj al-Isfahani, Abu\|Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani}}	Collection of songs, biographical information, and information relating to the lives and customs of the early Arabs and of the Muslim Arabs of the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates	{{sort\|900\|10th century}}{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W8glrgh87kEC&q=Kitab+al-Aghani&pg=PA242\|title=Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Language And Literature\|chapter=Modernity in a Classical Arabic Adab Work, the Kitab Al-aghāni\|first=Hilary\|last=Kilpatrick\|page=242\|editor-first=J. R.\|editor-last=Smart\|publisher=Routledge\|location=London\|date=25 April 1996\|access-date=15 September 2012\|isbn=0700704116}}
Shahnameh	Ferdowsi	Epic poem	{{sort\|977\|Begun {{Circa\|977}}, finished 1010}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ferdowsi-i\|title=Ferdowsi, Abu'l-Qāsem i. Life\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica\|year=1999\|access-date=14 August 2012\|volume=IX\|pages=514–523\|first=Djalal\|last=Khaleghi-Motlagh}}
Benedictional of St. Æthelwold	Godeman (a scribe) for Æthelwold of Winchester	Benedictional including pontifical benedictions for use at mass at different points of the liturgical year	{{sort\|963\|Written and illuminated between 963 and 984}}{{cite web\|url=http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/manuscripts/HITS0001.ASP?VPath=arevhtml/42245.htm&Search=49598&Highlight=F \|title=Full description \|access-date=15 August 2012 \|publisher=British Library \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214085116/https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/manuscripts/HITS0001.ASP?VPath=arevhtml%2F42245.htm&Search=49598&Highlight=F \|archive-date=14 February 2012 }}
Tactica of Emperor Leo VI the Wise	Leo VI the Wise	Handbook dealing with military formations and weapons	{{sort\|900\|Early 10th century}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/580081/tactics\|title=Tactics\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica\|year=2012\|access-date=15 August 2012\|page=1}}
Exeter Book	{{sort\|Leofric\|Given to Exeter Cathedral by Bishop Leofric}}	Collection of Old English poetry, including "The Wife's Lament"	{{sort\|965\|Copied c. 975}}{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eb3fcHHOceQC&q=The+Rhyming+Poem+exeter+book&pg=PA46\|title=English Literature from the Old English Period Through the Renaissance\|pages=46–7\|editor-first=J. E.\|editor-last=Luebering\|publisher=Britannica Educational Publishing\|location=New York\|date=15 August 2010\|access-date=15 September 2012\|isbn=978-1615302307}}
"Deor"	{{sort\|Leofric\|Given to Exeter Cathedral by Bishop Leofric (part of the Exeter Book)}}	The only surviving Old English poem with a fully developed refrain; possibly of a Norse background{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oxTIwNEBZ_cC&q=deor+poem&pg=PA43\|title=The Old English Elegies: A Critical Edition and Genre Study\|page=43\|first=Anne L.\|last=Klinck\|author-link=Anne Klinck \|publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press\|location=Montreal\|date=10 July 2001\|access-date=16 September 2012\|isbn=0773522417}}	{{sort\|965\|Copied c. 975}}
"The Rhyming Poem"	{{sort\|Leofric\|Given to Exeter Cathedral by Bishop Leofric (part of the Exeter Book)}}	Poem in couplets utilising rhyme, which was rarely used in Anglo-Saxon literature{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oXcqWJ6u4qUC&q=The+Rhyming+Poem+exeter+book&pg=PA24\|title=A Short History of English Literature\|volume=1\|page=24\|first=George\|last=Saintsbury\|author-link=George Saintsbury\|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Distributors\|location=New Delhi\|date=1 January 2005\|access-date=15 September 2012\|isbn=8126904453}}	{{sort\|965\|Copied c. 975}}
Extensive Records of the Taiping Era	{{sort\|Li Fang\|Compiled by Li Fang}}	Collection of anecdotes and stories	977–78{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WpyiqKZISw0C&q=Extensive+Records+of+the+Taiping+Era&pg=PA173\|title=The Making of a Savior Bodhisattva: Dizang in Medieval China\|year=2007\|access-date=17 August 2012\|publisher=University of Hawaii Press\|location=Honolulu\|first=Zhiru\|last=Ng\|isbn=978-0824830458\|page=173}}
Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era	{{sort\|Li Fang\|Compiled by Li Fang}}	Encyclopedia	984{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=28s6jhep0FAC&q=Imperial+Readings+of+the+Taiping+Era&pg=PA289\|title=China in European Encyclopaedias, 1700–1850\|isbn=978-9004201507\|date=10 May 2011\|first=Georg\|last=Lehner\|publisher=Brill Publishers\|location=Leiden\|page=289}}
Greek Anthology	{{sort\|Meleager\|Originally compiled by Meleager, combined by Constantinus Cephalas with works by Philippus of Thessalonica, Diogenianus, Agathias and others; part of a later revision compiled by Maximus Planudes}}	Collection of Greek epigrams, songs, epitaphs and rhetorical exercises	{{sort\|1\|Originally compiled in the 1st century BCE, expanded in the 9th century, revised and augmented in the 10th century, expanded again from a manuscript compiled in 1301}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/244474/Greek-Anthology\|title=Greek Anthology\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica\|year=2012\|access-date=23 September 2012}}
{{sort\|Wamyo Ruijusho\|Wamyō Ruijushō (倭名類聚抄)}}	{{sort\|Minamoto no Shitagō\|Compiled by Minamoto no Shitagō (源順)}}	Collection of Japanese terms	{{sort\|935\|Mid-930s}}{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ksX6msnn_LsC&q=Wamy%C5%8D+Ruijush%C5%8D&pg=PA13\|title=Selling Songs and Smiles: The Sex Trade in Heian and Kamakura Japan\|year=2007\|access-date=17 August 2012\|publisher=University of Hawaii Press\|location=Honolulu\|page=13\|isbn=978-0824830977\|first=Janet R.\|last=Goodwin}}
{{sort\|Gosen Wakashu\|Gosen Wakashū (後撰和歌集)}}	{{sort\|Murakami\|Ordered by Emperor Murakami}}	Imperial waka anthology	{{sort\|951\|c. 951}}{{sfn\|Frédéric\|2002\|p=120}}
Yamato Monogatari (大和物語)	Unknown	Uta monogatari (narrative fiction with waka poetry)	{{sort\|951\|c. 951-956}}
History of the Prophets and Kings	Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari	Universal history	{{sort\|956\|Unfinished at the time of Tabari's death in 956}}{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jJVoi3PIejwC&q=%22History+of+the+Prophets+and+Kings%22&pg=PA66\|title=A Textbook of Historiography, 500 B.C. to A.D. 2000\|date=1 January 2004\|access-date=17 August 2012\|publisher=Orient Blackswan\|location=Andhra Pradesh\|first=E.\|last=Sreedharan\|page=66\|isbn=8125026576}}
Praecepta Militaria	{{sort\|Nikephoros II Phokas\|Attributed to Nikephoros II Phokas}}	Military manual	965{{cite book\|url=https://archive.org/details/siegecraft00deni\|url-access=registration\|quote=praecepta militaria 965.\|title=Siegecraft: Two Tenth-century Instructional Manuals\|year=2000\|access-date=15 August 2012\|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks\|location=Washington, D.C.\|page=[https://archive.org/details/siegecraft00deni/page/16 16]\|first=Denis F.\|last=Sullivan\|isbn=0884022706}}
Escorial Taktikon	{{sort\|Oikonomides\|Edited by Nikolaos Oikonomides (1972)}}{{cite journal\|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks\|location=Washington, D.C.\|volume=54\|editor-first=Alice-Mary\|editor-last=Talbot\|editor-link=Alice-Mary Talbot \|first1=John\|last1=Nesbitt\|first2=Eric\|last2=McGeer\|url=http://www.doaks.org/resources/publications/dumbarton-oaks-papers/dop54/dp54no.pdf/\|title=Nicolas Oikonomides\|page=ix\|year=2000\|access-date=18 August 2012\|journal=Dumbarton Oaks Papers\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130703052023/http://www.doaks.org/resources/publications/dumbarton-oaks-papers/dop54/dp54no.pdf\|archive-date=3 July 2013}}	Precedence list	{{sort\|975\|Drawn up between 975 and 979}}{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CSZQ-VPFKoMC&q=escorial+taktikon&pg=PA112\|title=Byzantium in the Year 1000\|year=2003\|access-date=15 August 2012\|publisher=Brill Publishers\|location=Leiden\|editor-first=Paul\|editor-last=Magdalino\|isbn=9004120971\|page=112\|first=Paul\|last=Stephenson\|chapter=The Balkan frontier in the year 1000}}
Bodhi Vamsa	Upatissa of Upatissa Nuwara	Prose poem describing the bringing of a branch of the Bodhi tree to Sri Lanka in the 3rd century	{{sort\|980\|c. 980}}{{cite EB1911 \|wstitle=Bodhi Vamsa \|volume=4 \|page=109}}
Old History of the Five Dynasties	Xue Juzheng	Account of China's Five Dynasties	974{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wN99fsHpbTsC&q=five+dynasties+history++Xue+Juzheng&pg=PA140\|title=Mirroring the Past: The Writing and Use of History in Imperial China\|date=6 September 2005\|access-date=19 August 2012\|publisher=University of Hawaii Press\|location=Honolulu\|page=140\|first1=On-cho\|last1=Ng\|first2=Q. Edward\|last2=Wang\|isbn=0824829131}}
Chronicon Salernitanum	Anonymous{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tgRhYsvw-6YC&q=%22salerno+chronicle%22&pg=PA24\|title=The Age of Charlemagne\|date=26 July 1984\|access-date=19 August 2012\|publisher=Osprey Publishing\|location=Oxford\|first=David\|last=Nicolle\|author-link=David Nicolle\|isbn=085045042X\|page=24}}	Annals	974{{cite Catholic Encyclopedia\|wstitle=Ecclesiastical Annals\|first=Léon\|last=Van der Essen\|volume=1}}
Chronicon Æthelweardi	Æthelweard	Latin version of Anglo-Saxon Chronicle	After 975 and probably before 983{{cite book\|last=Miller\|first=Sean\|chapter=Æthelweard\|title=The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England\|editor=Lapidge, Michael\|year=2001}}
{{Lang\|la\|Gesta Berengarii imperatoris}}	Anonymous{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tcjy7bCmFL0C&q=gesta+berengarii+imperatoris+anonymous&pg=PA223\|title=The Carolingians: A Family Who Forged Europe\|year=1993\|access-date=19 August 2012\|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press\|location=Philadelphia\|first=Pierre\|last=Riché\|page=223\|isbn=0812213424\|others=Trans. Idomir Allen, Michael}}	Epic poem	{{sort\|900\|Early 10th century}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=spKxJeHJgTAC&q=deeds+of+the+emperor+berengar&pg=PA609\|title=Latin literature\|encyclopedia=Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia\|volume=2\|page=609\|first=John B.\|last=Dillon\|editor-first=Christopher\|editor-last=Kleinhenz\|publisher=Routledge\|location=London\|year=2004\|access-date=19 August 2012\|isbn=0415939313}}
{{sort\|Kokin Wakashu\|Kokin Wakashū}} (古今和歌集)	Compiled by a committee of bureaucrats recognised as superior poets	Anthology of Japanese poetry	{{sort\|905\|Compiled c. 905}}{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NwydOTn81ncC&q=Kokin+Wakash%C5%AB&pg=PA1\|page=1\|title=Brocade by Night: "Kokin Wakashū" and the Court Style in Japanese Classical Poetry\|first=Helen\|last=Craig McCullough\|author-link=Helen Craig McCullough\|publisher=Stanford University Press\|location=Palo Alto\|year=1985\|access-date=23 September 2012\|isbn=0804712468}}
Annales Cambriae	Diverse sources	Chronicle believed to cover a period beginning 447	{{sort\|970\|c. 970}}{{cite web\|url=http://www.britannia.com/history/docs/annales.html\|title=Annales Cambriae\|access-date=15 August 2012\|publisher=Britannia.com\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150227133631/http://www.britannia.com/history/docs/annales.html\|archive-date=27 February 2015}}
Waltharius	Unknown Frankish monk	Epic poem about the Germanic Heroic Age	{{sort\|850\|First circulated/published {{Circa\|850}} to {{Circa\|950}}}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11998\|title=Anonymous: Waltharius\|date=30 April 2003\|access-date=15 August 2012\|encyclopedia=The Literary Encyclopedia\|first=Hugh\|last=Magennis}}
Leofric Missal	Unknown scribes	Service book	{{sort\|900\|Core written c. 900, with an addition made c. 980}}{{cite web\|url=http://www.le.ac.uk/english/em1060to1220/mss/EM.Ox.Bodl.579.htm\|title=Oxford, Bodleian, Bodley 579 (2675)\|access-date=15 August 2012\|publisher=University of Leicester}}
{{sort\|Eiriksmal\|"Eiríksmál"}}	Unknown	Poem composed in memory of Eric Bloodaxe	{{sort\|900\|Probably 10th century}}
Khaboris Codex	Unknown	Oldest known copy of the New Testament	{{sort\|900\|10th century}}{{cite web\|url=http://www.cis.rit.edu/people/faculty/easton/research.html\|title=Research Highlights\|access-date=15 August 2012\|publisher=Rochester Institute of Technology\|first=Roger L Jr.\|last=Easton}}
Suda	Unknown{{cite encyclopedia\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-lr20SuvfIC&q=suda+by+suidas&pg=PA409\|title=Suda (Suidas)\|page=409\|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Modern Greek Literature\|first=Bruce\|last=Merry\|year=2004\|access-date=18 August 2012\|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group\|location=Westport, Connecticut\|isbn=0313308136}}	Encyclopedia	{{sort\|900\|10th century}}{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B65MZ_12REEC&q=suda+10th+century&pg=PA53\|page=53\|title=Sherlock Holmes in Babylon: And Other Tales of Mathematical History\|chapter=Hypatia and Her Mathematics\|first=Michael A. B.\|last=Deakin\|editor1-first=Marlow\|editor1-last=Anderson\|editor2-first=Victor\|editor2-last=Katz\|editor3-first=Robin\|editor3-last=Wilson\|editor3-link=Robin Wilson (mathematician)\|publisher=Mathematical Association of America\|location=Washington, D.C.\|isbn=0883855461\|date=14 October 2004\|access-date=15 August 2012}}
Tractatus coislinianus	Unknown	Manuscript containing a statement of a Greek theory of comedy	{{sort\|900\|10th century}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/601548/Tractatus-Coislinianus\|title=Tractatus Coislinianus\|year=2012\|access-date=15 August 2012\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica}}
Beowulf	Unknown	Epic	{{sort\|600\|Believed to have been written between the 7th and 10th centuries}}{{cite news\|url=http://articles.philly.com/2000-03-14/news/25604317_1_beowulf-grendel-scandinavian-hero\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150922005003/http://articles.philly.com/2000-03-14/news/25604317_1_beowulf-grendel-scandinavian-hero\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=22 September 2015\|title=10th-century Staple An Overnight Hit New Translation Creates A 'Beowulf' Boom. Puzzled Professors Are Rejoicing.\|date=14 March 2000\|access-date=14 August 2012\|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer\|first=Marc\|last=Schogol}}
Ishinpō	Tanba Yasunori	Encyclopedia of Chinese medicine	{{sort\|982\|Issued in 982}}{{cite web\|url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/7116/\|title=Ishinpō\|date=26 July 2012\|access-date=17 August 2012\|publisher=World Digital Library}}
Hudud al-'alam	Unknown	Concise geography of the world	{{sort\|982\|Begun 982–983}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/hodud-al-alam\|title=Ḥodud al-ʿālam\|encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Iranica\|first=C. Edmund\|last=Bosworth\|author-link=C. Edmund Bosworth\|volume=XII\|year=2004\|access-date=15 August 2012\|pages=417–418}}
Ōjōyōshū	Genshin	Kanbun Buddhist text	{{sort\|985\|985}}
Karnataka Kadambari	Nagavarma I	Romance in champu (mixed prose and verse)	{{sort\|990\|Late 10th century}}
Chhandombudhi	Nagavarma I	Treatise on prosody in Vijayanagara literature in Kannada	{{sort\|990\|c. 990}}
Completes the first draft of Shahnameh (The Book of Kings)	Ferdowsi	a long epic poem, the national epic of Greater Iran	{{sort\|999\|999}}[http://www.iranicaonline.org/pages/chronology-1 999 Ferdowsi completing the first draft of the Šāh-nāma.] iranicaonline.org
Tomida femina	Anonymous	Charm, the oldest known complete Occitan poem	{{sort\|900\|10th century}}
The Battle of Maldon	Anonymous	Old English heroic poem (earliest manuscript lost 1731)	{{sort\|991\|Between the Battle of Maldon in Spring 991 and 1000?}}{{cite book\|last=Palmer\|first=Alan\|last2=Palmer \|first2=Veronica\|year=1992\|title=The Chronology of British History\|publisher=Century Ltd\|location=London\|page=47\|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}
Passio Sancti Eadmundi	Abbo of Fleury	Hagiographic account of the death of Edmund the Martyr	{{sort\|900\|10th century}}

Authors

Name	Description	Dates
class="wikitable sortable"
Abu Firas al-Hamdani	Arab poet	932–968{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/abu-firas-al-hamdani/\|title=Abu Firas Al-Hamdani (932–968)\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Universalis\|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.\|location=Chicago\|first=André\|last=Miquel}}
{{sort\|Abu Kamil Shuja' ibn Aslam\|Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam}}	Algebraist	{{sort\|850\|{{Circa\|850\|930}}}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830900029.html\|title=Abū Kāmil ShujāʿIbn Aslam Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Shujāʿ\|encyclopedia=Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography\|year=2008\|access-date=7 September 2012\|first=Martin\|last=Levey}}
{{sort\|Aelfric of Eynsham\|Ælfric of Eynsham}}	Author of homilies in Old English, and three works to assist in learning Latin, the Grammar, the Glossary and the Colloquy (probably with Aelfric Bata. Also a Bible translator	{{sort\|955\|{{Circa\|955\|1010}}}}{{cite Catholic Encyclopedia\|wstitle=Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham\|first=Herbert\|last=Thurston\|authorlink=Herbert Thurston\|volume=1}}
{{sort\|Aethelweard\|Æthelweard}}	Anglo-Saxon historian	{{sort\|973\|Before 973 – {{Circa\|998}}}}{{cite EB1911 \|wstitle=Æthelweard \|volume=1 \|pages=291–292}}
Akazome Emon (赤染衛門)	Japanese waka poet	{{sort\|976\|{{floruit}} 976–1041}}{{sfn\|Miner et al.\|1988\|p=141}}
{{sort\|Al-Amiri, Abu al-Hassan\|Abu al-Hassan al-Amiri}}	Philosopher born in modern Iran	{{sort\|992\|Died 992}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ip/rep/H041\|title=al-'Amiri, Abu'l Hasan Muhammad ibn Yusuf (d. 992)\|encyclopedia=Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy\|year=1998\|access-date=7 September 2012\|first=Tom\|last=Gaskill\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606174417/http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ip/rep/H041\|archive-date=6 June 2011}}
Al-Maʿarri	Arab poet born near Aleppo, Syria	973–1057{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/353491/al-Maarri\|title=al-Maʿarrī\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica\|year=2012\|access-date=14 September 2012}}
Al-Masudi	Arab historian and geographer	{{sort\|893\|{{Circa\|896}} – 956}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/368842/al-Masudi\|title=al-Masʿūdī\|year=2012\|access-date=16 August 2012\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica}}
Al-Mutanabbi	Arabic poet	915–965{{cite journal\|url=http://www.alshindagah.com/sepoct2003/almutanabbi.html\|title=Al Mutanabbi: The Greatest Arabic Poet\|journal=AlShindagah\|first=Martin\|last=Nick\|date=September–October 2003\|access-date=9 September 2012\|issue=54}}
{{sort\|Al-Nadim, Ibn\|Ibn al-Nadim}}	Author of the Fehrest, an encyclopedia	{{sort\|932\|{{Circa\|932\|990}}}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/fehrest\|title=Fehrest\|date=15 December 1999\|access-date=21 August 2012\|first1=Rudolf\|last1=Sellheim\|first2=Mohsen\|last2=Zakeri\|first3=François\|last3=de Blois\|first4=Werner\|last4=Sundermann\|volume=IX\|pages=475–483\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica}}
Al-Natili	Arabic-language author in the medical field	{{sort\|985\|{{floruit}} {{Circa\|985}}–90}}{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9yTFnuWQKvkC&q=Al-Natili&pg=PA305\|page=305\|chapter=Medicine, pharmacology and veterinary science in Islamic eastern Iran and Central Asia\|first=L.\|last=Richter-Bernburg\|title=History of Civilizations of Central Asia\|volume=IV\|editor1-first=Ahmad Hasan\|editor1-last=Dani\|editor1-link=Ahmad Hasan Dani\|editor2-first=Vadim Mikhaĭlovich\|editor2-last=Masson\|year=1992\|access-date=8 September 2012\|publisher=UNESCO\|location=Paris\|isbn=9231036548}}
Alchabitius	Author of Al-madkhal ilā sināʿat Aḥkām al-nujūm, a treatise on astrology; from Iraq	{{sort\|950\|{{floruit}} {{Circa\|950}}}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830903546.html\|title=Al-Qabīṣī, Abū Al-Ṣaqr 'Abd Al-'Azīz Ibn 'Uthmān Ibn 'Alī\|encyclopedia=Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography\|year=2008\|access-date=19 August 2012\|first=David\|last=Pingree\|author-link=David Pingree}}
Aldred the Scribe	Author of the glosses in the Lindisfarne Gospels	{{sort\|900\|10th century}}{{cite DNB \|wstitle= Aldred the Glossator (10th cent.) \|volume= 01 \|last= Thompson \|first= Edward Maunde \|author-link= Edward Maunde Thompson \|pages= 248-249 \|short= 1}}
Alhazen	Mathematician, died in Cairo	{{sort\|965\|{{Circa\|965\|1040}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830901904.html\|title= Ibn Al-Haytham, Abū ʿAlī Al-Ḥasan Ibn Al-Ḥasan\|year=2008\|access-date=7 September 2012\|encyclopedia=Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography\|first=A. I.\|last=Sabra\|author-link=A. I. Sabra}}}}
Asser	Welsh biographer and bishop, died in Sherborne	died 909Patrick Wormald, "Asser (d. 909)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, UK: OUP, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/810 Retrieved 2 June 2016]
Bal'ami	Vizier to the Samanids and translator of the Ṭabarī into Persian	{{sort\|992\|Died c. 992–7}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/amirak-balami-name-given-to-abu-ali-mohammad-also-called-baami-e-kucek-the-lesser-younger-son-of-abul-fazl-mohammad-b \|title=Amīrak Balʿamī \|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica \|date=15 December 1989 \|access-date=21 August 2012 \|volume=I \|pages=971–972 \|first=Dj. \|last=Khaleghi-Motlagh \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121117001245/http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/amirak-balami-name-given-to-abu-ali-mohammad-also-called-baami-e-kucek-the-lesser-younger-son-of-abul-fazl-mohammad-b \|archive-date=17 November 2012 }}
{{sort\|Balkhi, Abu-Shakur\|Abu-Shakur Balkhi}}	Persian writer	915–960s{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ELrRr0L8UOsC&q=Abu-Shakur+Balkhi&pg=PA372\|page=372\|title=History of Civilizations of Central Asia\|chapter=Persian literature\|first=A.\|last=Afsahzod\|editor1-first=C. E.\|editor1-last=Bosworth\|editor1-link=Clifford Edmund Bosworth\|editor2-first=M. S.\|editor2-last=Asimov\|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass\|location=Delhi\|year=2003\|access-date=17 October 2012\|isbn=8120815963\|volume=IV\|version=Part Two}}
{{sort\|Balkhi, Abu Zayd\|Abu Zayd al-Balkhi}}	Persian Muslim polymath	849–934{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/abu-zayd-balki\|title=Abū Zayd Balḵī\|date=15 December 1983\|access-date=16 August 2012\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica\|volume=I\|pages=399–400\|first=W. M.\|last=Watt\|author-link=William Montgomery Watt}}
{{sort\|Balkhi, Rabia\|Rabia Balkhi}}	Arabic- and Persian-language poet	{{sort\|940\|Died 940}}{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bY8ck6iktikC&q=Rabia+Balkhi+poet&pg=PA86\|title=Culture and Customs of Afghanistan\|page=86\|first=Hafizullah\|last=Emadi\|author-link=Hafizullah Emadi\|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group\|location=Westport, Connecticut\|year=2005\|access-date=12 September 2012\|isbn=0313330891}}
Bard Boinne	Described in the Annals of the Four Masters as the "chief poet of Ireland"	{{sort\|932\|Died 932}}{{sfn\|Anonymous\|1856\|p=627–9}}
{{sort\|Battani, Muḥammad ibn Jabir al-Harrani\|Muḥammad ibn Jābir al-Ḥarrānī al-Battānī}}	Arab astronomer	{{sort\|850\|c. 850 – c. 929}}{{cite EB1911\| \|wstitle=Albategnius \|volume=1 \|page=491}}
{{sort\|Ben Abraham al-Fasi, David\|David ben Abraham al-Fasi}}	Karaite lexicographer from Fes	{{sort\|900\|10th century}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4927-david-ben-abraham\|title=David ben Abraham (Arabic name, Abu Sulaiman Da'ud al-Fasi)\|encyclopedia=Jewish Encyclopedia\|year=1906\|access-date=11 September 2012}}
{{sort\|Biruni, Abu Rayhan\|Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī}}	Scholar and polymath of the late Samanids and early Ghaznavids	973 – after 1050{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/biruni-abu-rayhan-index\|title=Bīrūnī, Abū Rayḥān\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica\|date=15 December 1989\|access-date=8 September 2012\|volume=IV\|page=274}}
{{sort\|Buzjani, Abu al-Wafa'\|Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī}}	Mathematician and astronomer; author of Kitāb fī mā yaḥtaj ilayh al-kuttāb wa'l-ʿummāl min {{hamza}}ilm al-ḥisāb, an arithmetic textbook; of Persian descent	940 – 997 or 998{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830900031.html\|title=Abū'l-Wafā{{hamza}} Al-Būzjānī, Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Yaḥyā Ibn Ismāʿīl Ibn Al-ʿAbbās\|encyclopedia=Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography\|year=2008\|first=A. P.\|last=Youschkevitch\|author-link=Adolph P. Yushkevich\|access-date=6 September 2012}}
Cináed ua hArtacáin	Irish poet and author of dinsenchas poems	{{sort\|974\|Died 974}}{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3cHdQC1cXLEC&q=Cin%C3%A1ed+ua+hArtac%C3%A1in&pg=PA273\|title=The Celts: History, Life, and Culture\|page=273\|chapter=Dindshenchas\|first=Kay\|last=Muhr\|volume=1\|editor1-first=John Thomas\|editor1-last=Koch\|editor2-first=Antone\|editor2-last=Minard\|editor1-link=John T. Koch\|publisher=ABC-CLIO\|location=Santa Barbara, California\|date=31 August 2012\|access-date=12 September 2012\|isbn=978-1598849646}}
Constantine VII	Byzantine emperor and author of {{Lang\|la\|De Administrando Imperio}} and De Ceremoniis	905–959{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/133971/Constantine-VII-Porphyrogenitus\|title=Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus\|year=2012\|access-date=11 September 2012\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica}}
{{sort\|Daqiqi, Abu-Mansur\|Abu-Mansur Daqiqi}}	Poet, probably born in Ṭūs	{{sort\|932\|After 932 – c. 976}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/daqiqi-abu-mansur-ahmad-b\|title=Daqīqī, Abū Manṣūr Aḥmad\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica\|first=Djalal\|last=Khaleghi-Motlagh\|date=15 December 1993\|access-date=14 September 2012\|volume=VI\|pages=661–662}}
{{sort\|Donnolo, Shabbethai\|Shabbethai Donnolo}}	Italian physician and writer on medicine and astrology	913 – after 982{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5279-donnolo\|title=Donnolo (Δομνουλος, diminutive of "Dominus"), or Shabbethai b. Abraham b. Joel\|encyclopedia=Jewish Encyclopedia\|year=1906\|access-date=9 September 2012}}
{{sort\|Egill Skallagrimsson\|Egill Skallagrímsson}}	Viking skald and adventurer	{{sort\|910\|c. 910 – c. 990}}{{cite web\|url=http://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/1/777777122294/\|title=Egil Skallagrimsson and the Viking Ideal\|year=2001\|access-date=22 September 2012\|first=Christina\|last=Von Nolcken\|publisher=University of Chicago Library}}
{{sort\|Eilifr Godrunarson\|Eilífr Goðrúnarson}}	Icelandic skald	{{sort\|1000\|c. 1000}}{{cite web\|url=http://abdn.ac.uk/skaldic/db.php?if=default&table=skalds&id=46\|title=Eilífr Goðrúnarson (Eil)\|access-date=17 September 2012\|work=Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages\|publisher=University of Aberdeen\|archive-date=21 March 2015\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150321035620/http://abdn.ac.uk/skaldic/db.php?table=skalds&id=46&if=default}}
Einarr Helgason	Skald for Norwegian ruler Haakon Sigurdsson	{{sort\|960\|{{floruit}} late 10th century}}{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZxiFu_jm_6UC&q=Einarr+Helgason&pg=PA34\|page=34\|title=A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics\|first=Margaret\|last=Clunies Ross\|author-link=Margaret Clunies Ross\|publisher=D. S. Brewer\|location=Cambridge\|date=18 August 2011\|access-date=16 September 2012\|isbn=978-1843842798}}
{{sort\|Eutychius of Alexandria\|Patriarch Eutychius of Alexandria}}	Author of a history of the world and treatises on medicine and theology	876–940{{cite CE1913 \|last=Fortescue \|first=Adrian \|authorlink=Adrian Fortescue \|wstitle=Eutychius, Melchite Patriarch of Alexandria \|volume=5 }}
Eysteinn Valdason	Icelandic skald	{{sort\|1000\|c. 1000}}{{cite web\|url=http://abdn.ac.uk/skaldic/db.php?if=default&table=skalds&id=40\|title=Eysteinn Valdason (EVald)\|access-date=17 September 2012\|work=Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages\|publisher=University of Aberdeen\|archive-date=12 May 2015\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150512044046/http://abdn.ac.uk/skaldic/db.php?table=skalds&id=40&if=default}}
{{sort\|Eyvindr skaldaspillir\|Eyvindr skáldaspillir}}	Icelandic skald	{{sort\|990\|Died c. 990}}{{cite web\|url=http://abdn.ac.uk/skaldic/db.php?if=default&table=skalds&id=57\|title=Eyvindr skáldaspillir Finnsson (Eyv)\|access-date=17 September 2012\|work=Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages\|publisher=University of Aberdeen\|archive-date=18 July 2014\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718001705/https://www.abdn.ac.uk/skaldic/db.php?table=skalds&id=57&if=default}}
{{sort\|Farabi\|Al-Farabi}}	Muslim philosopher	{{sort\|878\|c. 878 – {{Circa\|950}}}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/201680/al-Farabi\|title=al-Fārābī\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica\|year=2012\|access-date=7 September 2012}}
{{sort\|Faraj al-Isfahani, Abu\|Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani}}	Literary scholar and author of an encyclopedic work on Arabic music	897–967{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/2072/Abu-al-Faraj-al-Isbahani\|title=Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī\|access-date=21 August 2012\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica}}
Ferdowsi	Persian poet and author of the Shahnameh, the Persian national epic	{{sort\|935\|{{Circa\|935\|1020–26}}}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/204578/Ferdowsi\|title=Ferdowsī\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica\|first=John Andrew\|last=Boyle\|year=2012\|access-date=11 September 2012}}
Flodoard	French historian and chronicler	894–966{{cite CE1913\|wstitle= Flodoard \|volume= 6 \|last= Remy \|first= Arthur Frank Joseph \|author-link= \|short=1}}
Frithegod	British poet, author of Breviloquium vitae Wilfridi, a version of Stephen of Ripon's Vita Sancti Wilfrithi written in hexameters	{{sort\|950\|{{floruit}} {{Circa\|950}} – c. 958}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10190\|title= Frithegod [Frithegode, Fredegaud] (fl. c.950–c.958), cleric and poet\|encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography\|year=2004\|access-date=12 September 2012\|first=Michael\|last=Lapidge\|author-link=Michael Lapidge\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|location=Oxford\|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/10190\|url-access=subscription}}
Fujiwara no Asatada (藤原公任)	One of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals	{{sort\|910\|c. 910 – c. 966}}{{sfn\|Frédéric\|2002\|p=818}}
{{sort\|Fujiwara no Kinto\|Fujiwara no Kintō (藤原公任)}}	Japanese poet and critic responsible for the initial gathering of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals	966–1041{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gf3Mj3zO0PgC&q=Fujiwara+no+Kint%C5%8D&pg=PA40\|title=Hitomaro: Poet As God\|page=40\|first=Anne\|last=Commons\|publisher=Brill Publishers\|location=Leiden\|date=30 April 2009\|access-date=24 September 2012\|isbn=978-9004174610}}
Fujiwara no Takamitsu (藤原高光)	Japanese poet, one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals	{{sort\|994\|Died 994}}{{sfn\|Frédéric\|2002\|p=818}}
Fujiwara no Tametoki (藤原為時)	Japanese waka and kanshi poet and father of Murasaki Shikibu{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VIzfsTdB0QgC&q=Fujiwara+no+Tametoki&pg=PA11\|page=11\|title=Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji\|editor-first=Harold\|editor-last=Bloom\|editor-link=Harold Bloom\|chapter=The Tale of Genji\|first=Donald\|last=Keene\|author-link=Donald Keene\|publisher=Infobase Publishing\|location=New York\|year=2004\|access-date=28 September 2012\|isbn=0791075842}}	{{sort\|960\|Late 10th – early 11th century}}{{sfn\|Cranston\|2006\|p=1140}}
Fujiwara no Toshiyuki (藤原敏行)	Japanese poet	{{sort\|901\|Died c. 901}}{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lb9FRUMmucoC&q=Fujiwara+no+Toshiyuki&pg=PA103\|page=103\|title=Optical Allusions: Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (ca. 800–1200)\|first=Joseph T.\|last=Sorensen\|publisher=Brill Publishers\|location=Leiden\|date=6 July 2012\|access-date=28 September 2012\|isbn=978-9004219311}}
{{sort\|Gilani, Kushyar\|Kushyar Gilani}}	Iranian astronomer	{{sort\|950\|{{floruit}} second half of the 10th/early 11th century}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Ibn_Labban_BEA.htm\|title=Ibn Labbān, Kūshyār: Kiyā Abū al‐Ḥasan Kūshyār ibn Labbān Bāshahrī al‐Jīlī (Gīlānī)\|encyclopedia=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers\|year=2007\|publisher=Springer Science+Business Media\|location=New York\|editor-first=Thomas\|editor-last=Hockey\|pages=560–561\|first=Mohammad\|last=Bagheri\|access-date=8 September 2012\|doi=10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_807\|isbn=978-0-387-31022-0}}
Guthormr sindri	Norwegian skald	{{sort\|900\|10th century}}{{cite web\|url=http://abdn.ac.uk/skaldic/db.php?table=skalds&id=77\|title=Guthormr sindri (Gsind)\|access-date=21 September 2012\|work=Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages\|publisher=University of Aberdeen\|archive-date=9 October 2012\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009082507/http://abdn.ac.uk/skaldic/db.php?table=skalds&id=77}}
{{sort\|ha-Babli, Nathan ben Isaac\|Nathan ben Isaac ha-Babli}}	Babylonian historian	{{sort\|900\|10th century}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11357-nathan-ben-isaac-ha-kohen-hababli\|title=Nathan Ben Isaac Ha-Kohen Hababli\|encyclopedia=Jewish Encyclopedia\|year=1906\|access-date=6 September 2012}}
{{sort\|Hallfredr vandraeoaskald\|Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld}}	Icelandic skald{{cite web\|url=http://abdn.ac.uk/skaldic/db.php?if=default&table=skalds&id=105\|title=Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld Óttarsson (Hfr)\|access-date=23 September 2012\|work=Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages\|publisher=University of Aberdeen\|archive-date=11 May 2015\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150511171113/http://abdn.ac.uk/skaldic/db.php?table=skalds&id=105&if=default}}	{{sort\|1007\|Died c. 1007}}{{cite book\|url=http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/FJ-Litteraturhist.Bd.1_-_Hallfre%C3%B0r_vandr%C3%A6%C3%B0ask%C3%A1ld_%C3%93ttarsson\|title=Den oldnorske og oldislandske litteraturs historie\|volume=1\|editor-first=Finnur\|editor-last=Jónsson\|editor-link=Finnur Jónsson\|edition=2nd\|publisher=G. E. C. Gads Forlag\|location=Copenhagen\|chapter=Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld Óttarsson\|first=C.\|last=Fyrsteskjalde\|access-date=23 September 2012}}
{{sort\|Hamadani, Badi' al-Zaman\|Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani}}	Arabic belle-lettrist and inventor of the maqāma genre	968–1008{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/badi-al-zaman-hamadani-abul-fazl-ahmad-b\|title=Badīʿ-al-Zamān Hamadānī\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica\|first=F.\|last=Malti-Douglas\|date=15 December 1988\|access-date=11 September 2012\|volume=III\|pages=377–379}}
{{sort\|Hamdani, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan\|Abū Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdānī}}	Arabian geographer	{{sort\|945\|Died 945}}{{cite EB1911 \|last=Thatcher \|first=Griffithes Wheeler \|wstitle=Hamdānī \|volume=12 \|pages=875–876}}
Hovhannes Draskhanakerttsi	Armenian man of letters	{{sort\|840\|c. 840 – c. 930}}{{sfn\|Hacikyan et al.\|2002\|p=229}}
Hrotsvitha	German dramatist and poet	{{sort\|935\|c. 935 – c. 1002}}{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mpc53LXRvIQC&q=hrotsvit+935&pg=PA169\|chapter=Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (c. 935 – c. 975)\|title=Catholic Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook\|year=2001\|access-date=15 August 2012\|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group\|location=Westport, Connecticut\|editor-first=Mary R.\|editor-last=Reichardt\|isbn=0313311471\|first=Deanna\|last=Delmar Evans\|page=169}}
Ibn al-Faqih	Persian historian and geographer	{{sort\|903\|Died 903}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DJgnebGbAB8C&q=ibn+al-faqih+geographer&pg=PA45\|title=Arab geographers\|page=45\|first=Andrew J.\|last=Waskey\|editor-first=R. W.\|editor-last=McColl\|volume=1\|date=1 January 2005\|access-date=16 August 2012\|publisher=Infobase Publishing\|location=New York\|isbn=0816072299\|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of World Geography}}
Ibn al-Jazzar	Physician	{{sort\|970\|Died 970/980}}{{cite journal\|url=http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/v071/71.4br_ibn_al-jazzar.html\|title=Ibn al-Jazzar on Forgetfulness and Its Treatment: Critical Edition of the Arabic Text and the Hebrew Translations, with Commentary and Translation into English (review)\|journal=Bulletin of the History of Medicine\|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press\|location=Baltimore\|first=G. A.\|last=Russell\|date=Winter 1997\|access-date=8 September 2012\|volume=71\|issue=4\|pages=704–706\|doi=10.1353/bhm.1997.0184\|s2cid=72385358\|url-access=subscription}}
{{sort\|Ibn al-Qutiyya\|Ibn al-Qūṭiyya}}	Historian of Muslim Spain, born in Seville and of Visigothic descent{{cite book\|url=https://archive.org/details/medievaliberiare00cons\|url-access=registration\|quote=Ibn al-Qūṭiyya.\|chapter=An Uprising Against the Amir Al-Ḥakam (796–822)\|editor-first=Olivia Remie\|editor-last=Constable\|first=Olivia Remie\|last=Constable\|title=Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources\|page=[https://archive.org/details/medievaliberiare00cons/page/45 45]\|year=1997\|access-date=6 September 2012\|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press\|location=Philadelphia\|isbn=0812215699}}	{{sort\|977\|Died 977}}{{cite journal\|jstor=600444\|title=The Historical Arjūza of ibn ʿAbd Rabbihi, a Tenth-Century Hispano-Arabic Epic Poem\|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society\|publisher=American Oriental Society\|first=James T.\|last=Monroe\|author-link=James T. Monroe\|volume=91\|issue=1\|date=January–March 1971\|page=69\|location=Baltimore\|doi=10.2307/600444}}
Ibn Duraid	Arabian poet	837–934{{cite EB1911\|wstitle=Ibn Duraid \|volume=14 \|page=220}}
Ibn Hawqal	Author of Kitāb al-masālik wa'l-mamālik, a book on geography; born in Nisibis	{{sort\|950\|Second half of the 10th century – after 988}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=raKRY3KQspsC&q=Ibn+Hawqal&pg=PA419\|title=Ibn Hawqal\|encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures\|date=31 July 1997\|access-date=19 August 2012\|first=Emilia\|last=Calvo\|page=419\|publisher=Kluwer Academic Publishers\|location=Dordrecht\|editor-first=Helaine\|editor-last=Selin\|editor-link=Helaine Selin\|isbn=0792340663}}
Ibn Juljul	Author of Tabaqāt al atibbā{{hamza}} wa'l-hukamả, a summary of the history of medicine	944 – c. 994{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830902231.html\|title=Ibn Juljul, Sulaymān Ibn Ḥasan\|encyclopedia=Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography\|year=2008\|access-date=6 September 2012\|first=J.\|last=Vernet}}
Ibn Khordadbeh	Author on subjects including history, genealogy, geography, music, and wines and cookery; of Persian descent	{{sort\|820\|c. 820 – c. 912}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830902298.html\|title=Ibn Khurradādhbih (or Ibn Khurdādhbih), Abu'l-Qāsim 'Ubayd Allāh 'Abd Allāh\|encyclopedia=Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography\|year=2008\|access-date=19 August 2012\|first=S. Maqbul\|last=Ahmad}}
Ioane-Zosime	Georgian religious writer, hymnographer and translator	{{sort\|900\|10th century}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.georgianbiography.com/bios/i/ioane_zosime.htm\|title=Ioane-Zosime\|encyclopedia=Dictionary of Georgian National Biography\|access-date=12 September 2012\|first=Givi\|last=Koberidze\|year=2007\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216123010/http://www.georgianbiography.com/bios/i/ioane_zosime.htm\|archive-date=16 February 2012}}
{{sort\|Ise, Lady\|Lady Ise}} (伊勢)	Japanese waka poet,{{cite web\|url=http://www.temcauley.staff.shef.ac.uk/ise.shtml\|title=Ise\|work=2001 Waka for Japan 2001\|year=2001\|access-date=12 September 2012\|publisher=University of Sheffield\|first=Thomas\|last=McAuley\|archive-date=27 July 2011\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727092528/http://www.temcauley.staff.shef.ac.uk/ise.shtml}} mother of Nakatsukasa{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q9eFckEQAMkC&q=Nakatsukasa+912&pg=PA267\|title=Japanese Women Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook\|page=267\|first=Joseph\|last=Parker\|chapter=Nakatsukasa no Naishi (Lady Nakatsukasa, fl. ca. 1250–92)\|editor-first=Chieko Irie\|editor-last=Mulhern\|year=1994\|access-date=12 September 2012\|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group\|location=Westport, Connecticut\|isbn=0313254869}}	{{sort\|877\|c. 877 – c. 940}}
{{sort\|Israeli, Isaac ben Solomon\|Isaac Israeli ben Solomon}}	Physician and philosopher, born in Egypt	832–932{{cite encyclopedia \|year=1906 \|title=Israeli, Isaac Ben Solomon (Abu Ya'ḳub Isḥaḳ Ibn Sulaiman Alisra'Ili; generally known as Isaac Israeli and sometimes as Isaac Israeli the Elder) \|encyclopedia=Jewish Encyclopedia \|url=http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8297-israeli-isaac-ben-solomon-abu-ya-kub-ishak-ibn-sulaiman-alisra-ili \|access-date=8 September 2012}}
{{sort\|Israel the Grammarian\|Israel the Grammarian}}	European scholar, poet and bishop	c. 895–c. 965{{cite encyclopedia\|last=Lapidge\|first=Michael\|year=2001\|title=Israel the Grammarian\|editor=Lapidge, Michael \|editor2=Blair, John \|editor3=Keynes, Simon \|editor4=Scragg, Donald \|encyclopedia=The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England\|publisher=Blackwell Publishing\|location=Oxford\|isbn=978-0-631-22492-1}}
Izumi Shikibu (和泉式部)	Japanese waka poet	{{sort\|976\|Born c. 976}}{{cite web\|url=http://www.temcauley.staff.shef.ac.uk/izumi.shtml\|title=Izumi Shikibu\|work=2001 Waka for Japan 2001\|year=2001\|access-date=12 September 2012\|publisher=University of Sheffield}}
{{sort\|Jacob, Abraham ben\|Abraham ben Jacob}}	Spanish Jewish geographer	{{sort\|950\|{{floruit}} second half of the 10th century}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830902123.html\|title=Ibrāhīm Ibn Ya'qūb Al-Isrā'īlī Al-Turṭushi\|encyclopedia=Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography\|year=2008\|access-date=6 September 2012\|first=Martin\|last=Levey}}
Jayadeva	Indian mathematician	{{sort\|1073\|Lived before 1073}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=raKRY3KQspsC&q=Jayadeva+%28mathematician%29&pg=PA472\|title=Jayadeva\|first=K. V.\|last=Sarma\|author-link=K. V. Sarma\|page=472\|encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures\|editor-first=Helaine\|editor-last=Selin\|editor-link=Helaine Selin\|date=31 July 1997\|access-date=8 September 2012\|publisher=Springer Science+Business Media\|location=Dordrecht\|isbn=0792340663}}
{{sort\|Karaji\|Al-Karaji}}	Mathematician, lived in Baghdad	953 – c. 1029{{cite web\|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Al-Karaji.html\|title=Abu Bekr ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn Al-Karaji\|date=July 1999\|access-date=8 September 2012\|work=MacTutor History of Mathematics archive\|publisher=University of St Andrews\|first1=J. J.\|last1=O'Connor\|first2=E. F.\|last2=Robertson\|author-link2=Edmund F. Robertson}}
{{sort\|Khazin, Abu Ja'far\|Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin}}	Astronomer and number theorist from Khurasan	{{sort\|900\|c. 900 – c. 971}}{{cite web\|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Khazin.html\|title=Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn al-Hasan Al-Khazin\|date=July 1999\|access-date=19 August 2012\|work=MacTutor History of Mathematics archive\|publisher=University of St Andrews\|first1=J. J.\|last1=O'Connor\|first2=E. F.\|last2=Robertson\|author-link2=Edmund F. Robertson}}
{{sort\|Khojandi, Abu-Mahmud\|Abu-Mahmud Khojandi}}	Astronomer and mathematician born in Khujand	{{sort\|945\|c. 945 – 1000}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Khujandi_BEA.htm\|title=Khujandī: Abū Maḥmūd Ḥāmid ibn al‐Khiḍr al‐Khujandī\|encyclopedia=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers\|year=2007\|access-date=19 August 2012\|publisher=Springer Science+Business Media\|location=New York\|editor-first=Thomas\|editor-last=Hockey\|doi=10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_762\|first=Glen\|last=Van Brummelen\|pages=630–631\|isbn=978-0-387-31022-0\|display-editors=etal}}
{{sort\|Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad\|Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi}}	Author of Mafātih al-'ulũm (Keys of the Sciences)	{{sort\|975\|{{floruit}} c. 975}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830902299.html\|title= Al-Khuwārizmī, Abū 'Abd Allāh Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad Ibn Yūsuf\|encyclopedia=Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography\|first=J.\|last=Vernet\|year=2008\|access-date=11 September 2012}}
Ki no Tokibumi	Japanese poet, one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber	{{sort\|950\|{{floruit}} {{Circa\|950}}}}
Ki no Tomonori (紀時文)	Japanese waka poet and one of the compilers of the Kokin Wakashū	{{sort\|850\|c. 850 – c. 904}}{{cite web\|url=http://www.temcauley.staff.shef.ac.uk/tomonori.shtml\|title=Ki no Tomonori\|year=2001\|first=Thomas\|last=McAuley\|work=2001 Waka for Japan 2001\|publisher=University of Sheffield\|access-date=23 September 2012}}
Ki no Tsurayuki (紀貫之)	Japanese waka poet, critic and diarist; one of the compilers of the Kokin Wakashū	{{sort\|872\|c. 872 – c. 945}}{{cite web\|url=http://www.temcauley.staff.shef.ac.uk/tsurayuki.shtml\|title=Ki no Tsurayuki\|year=2001\|first=Thomas\|last=McAuley\|work=2001 Waka for Japan 2001\|publisher=University of Sheffield\|access-date=23 September 2012\|archive-date=28 July 2013\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728111121/http://www.temcauley.staff.shef.ac.uk/tsurayuki.shtml}}
Kishi Joō (徽子女王)	Japanese poet and one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals	929–985{{cite web\|url=http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/singleObject.cfm?ObjectNumber=F1950.24\|title=Portrait of the poetess, Saigu no Nyogo Yoshiko\|year=2012\|access-date=12 September 2012\|publisher=Smithsonian Institution\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205142306/http://asia.si.edu/collections/singleObject.cfm?ObjectNumber=F1950.24\|archive-date=5 December 2014}}
Kiyohara no Motosuke (清原元輔)	Japanese poet: one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber and the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals, and father of Sei Shōnagon{{sfn\|Frédéric\|2002\|p=532}}	908–990{{sfn\|Frédéric\|2002\|p=532}}
Leo the Deacon	Byzantine historian	{{sort\|950\|Born {{Circa\|950}}}}{{cite CE1913\|wstitle= Leo Diaconus \|volume= 9 \|last= Fortescue \|first= Adrian \|author-link= Adrian Fortescue \|short=1}}
Liutprand of Cremona	Italian historian and author	{{sort\|922\|c. 922 – 972}}{{cite EB1911 \|wstitle=Liudprand \|volume=16 \|page=800}}
Luo Yin (羅隱)	Japanese poet	833–909{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nB1feh4lXw4C&q=%22Luo+Yin%22&pg=PA215\|page=215\|title=Harmony Garden: The Life, Literary Criticism, and Poetry of Yuan Mei (1716–1798)\|first=J. D.\|last=Schmidt\|publisher=Routledge\|location=London\|date=6 January 2003\|access-date=17 October 2012\|isbn=0700715258}}
{{sort\|Majusi, Ali ibn al-'Abbas\|'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi}}	Author of Kāmil al-Ṣinā'ah al-Tibbiyyah, a compendium; born near Shiraz	{{sort\|900\|First quarter of the 10th century – 994}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830902779.html\|title=Al-Majūsī, Abu'l-Ḥasan 'Alī Ibn 'Abbās\|encyclopedia=Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography\|year=2008\|access-date=8 September 2012\|first=Sami\|last=Hamarneh}}
{{sort\|Mansur, Abu Nasr\|Abu Nasr Mansur}}	Astronomer, born in Gīlān	{{sort\|950\|{{Circa\|950\|1036}}}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Ibn_Iraq_BEA.htm\|title=Ibn ʿIrāq: Abū Naṣr Manṣūr ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿIrāq\|encyclopedia=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers\|editor-first=Thomas\|editor-last=Hockey\|year=2007\|access-date=8 September 2012\|publisher=Springer Science+Business Media\|location=New York\|first=J. Len\|last=Berggren\|doi=10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_680\|pages=557–558}}
Mansur Al-Hallaj	Arabic-speaking mystic and author of the Ṭawāsin, a collection of 11 reflective essays; born near Beyza	857–922{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/hallaj-1\|title=Ḥallāj, Abu'l-Moḡiṯ Ḥosayn\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica\|first=Jawid\|last=Mojaddedi\|author-link=Jawid Mojaddedi\|date=15 December 2003\|access-date=15 September 2012\|volume=XI\|pages=589–592}}
{{sort\|Meskavayh, Ebn\|Ebn Meskavayh}}	Persian writer on topics including history, theology, philosophy and medicine	{{sort\|1030\|Died 1030}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/meskavayh-abu-ali-ahmad\|title=Meskavayh, Abu ʿAli Aḥmad\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica\|year=2002\|access-date=6 September 2012\|first=C. Edmund\|last=Bosworth\|author-link=Clifford Edmund Bosworth}}
{{sort\|Metaphrast, Symeon\|Symeon the Metaphrast}}	Principal compiler of the legends of saints in the Menologia of the Greek Orthodox Church	{{sort\|950\|Second half of the 10th century}}{{cite CE1913\|wstitle= Symeon Metaphrastes \|volume= 10 \|last= Fortescue \|first= Adrian \|author-link= Adrian Fortescue \|short=1}}
Mibu no Tadamine	Japanese waka poet{{cite web\|url=http://www.temcauley.staff.shef.ac.uk/tadamine.shtml\|title=Mibu no Tadamine\|year=2001\|first=Thomas\|last=McAuley\|work=2001 Waka for Japan 2001\|publisher=University of Sheffield\|access-date=23 September 2012}} and one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals	{{sort\|898\|{{floruit}} 898–920}}{{sfn\|Frédéric\|2002\|p=818}}
Michitsuna no Haha ( 藤原道綱母)	Author of Kagerō nikki (The Gossamer Years)	{{sort\|995\|Died 995}}{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UIajAAAAIAAJ&q=Michitsuna+no+Haha&pg=PA24\|title=The Woman's Hand: Gender and Theory in Japanese Women's Writing\|page=24\|chapter=Special Address: Without Beginning, Without End\|last=Ōba Minako\|author-link=Oba Minako\|editor1-first=Paul\|editor1-last=Schalow\|editor2-first=Janet\|editor2-last=Walker\|publisher=Stanford University Press\|location=Palo Alto\|date=1 October 1996\|access-date=12 September 2012\|isbn=0804727228}}
Minamoto no Kintada (源公忠)	Japanese poet and one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals	889–948{{sfn\|Frédéric\|2002\|p=818}}
Minamoto no Muneyuki (源宗于)	Japanese poet{{sfn\|Frédéric\|2002\|p=364}}	{{sort\|939\|Died 939}}{{sfn\|Cranston\|2006\|p=1144}}
Minamoto no Saneakira (源信明)	Japanese poet	916–970{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P26mAAAAIAAJ&q=Minamoto+Saneakira&pg=PA68\|page=68\|title=Fujiwara Teika's Superior Poems of Our Time\|others=Trans. Brower, Robert H.; Miner, Earl\|last=Fujiwara Teika\|publisher=Stanford University Press\|location=Palo Alto\|date=1 June 1967\|access-date=12 October 2012\|isbn=0804701717}}
Minamoto no Shigeyuki (源重之)	Japanese poet	{{sort\|1000\|Died c. 1000}}{{sfn\|Cranston\|2006\|p=1046}}
Minamoto no Shitagō (源順)	Japanese poet: one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber and the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals{{sfn\|Frédéric\|2002\|p=818}}	911–983{{sfn\|Frédéric\|2002\|p=818}}
{{sort\|Misra, Vācaspati\|Vācaspati Miśra}}	Indian polymath	900–980{{cite journal\|url=http://www.blackwellreference.com/public/tocnode?id=g9780631229674_chunk_g9780631229674177\|title=172. Vācaspati Miśra\|year=2001\|access-date=7 September 2012\|journal=Blackwell Reference Online\|first=Karl H.\|last=Potter\|doi=10.1111/b.9780631229674.2001.00177.x}}
Muhammad bin Hani al Andalusi al Azdi	Poet born in Seville{{sfn\|Daftary\|2007\|p=159}}	{{sort\|973\|Died 973}}{{sfn\|Daftary\|2007\|p=161}}
Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari	Writer on theology, literature and history, born in Tabriz	839–923{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w6flsOIT5PsC&q=Muhammad+ibn+Jarir+al-Tabari&pg=PA62\|title=Fifty Key Figures in Islam\|page=62\|first=Roy\|last=Jackson\|publisher=Taylor & Francis\|location=Abingdon, Oxon\|date=8 August 2006\|access-date=6 September 2012\|isbn=0415354676}}
{{sort\|Muqqadasi\|Al-Muqaddasi}}	Arabian traveller and author of a Description of the Lands of Islam, an Arabic geography{{cite EB1911 \|wstitle=Muḳaddasi \|volume=18 \|page=958}}	{{sort\|946\|c. 946–7 – 1000}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H-k9oc9xsuAC&q=Al-Muqaddasi&pg=PA285\|title=Geography\|encyclopedia=Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia\|date=31 October 2005\|access-date=19 August 2012\|publisher=Routledge\|location=London\|page=286\|volume=1\|editor-first=Josef W.\|editor-last=Meri\|author-link=Josef W. Meri\|isbn=0415966906}}
{{sort\|Mutazz, Abdullah ibn\|Abdullah ibn al-Mu'tazz}}	Writer and, for one day, caliph of the Abbasid dynasty	{{sort\|908\|Died 908}}{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mqNMszs0licC&q=Abdullah+ibn+al-Mu%27tazz&pg=PA86\|page=86\|title=On Fiction and Adab in Medieval Arabic Literature\|editor-first=Philip F.\|editor-last=Kennedy\|chapter=Probability, Plausibility and "Spiritual Communication" in Classical Arabic Biography\|first=Michael\|last=Cooperson\|author-link=Michael Cooperson\|publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag\|location=Wiesbaden\|year=2005\|access-date=17 October 2012\|isbn=3447051825\|series=Studies in Arabic Language and Literature\|volume=6}}
Nagavarma I	Author of the Chandōmbudhi, the first treatise on Kannada metrics	{{sort\|960\|Late 10th century}}{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0UCh7r2TjQIC&q=nagavarma&pg=PA368\|pages=368–9\|title=The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India\|first=Sheldon\|last=Pollock\|author-link=Sheldon Pollock\|publisher=University of California Press\|location=Berkeley, California\|date=23 May 2006\|access-date=23 September 2012\|isbn=0520245008}}
Nakatsukasa (中務)	One of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals, daughter of Lady Ise	{{sort\|912\|c. 912 – after 989}}
{{sort\|Nayrizi\|Al-Nayrizi}}	Astronomer and meteorologist probably from Neyriz	{{sort\|865\|c. 865 – c. 922}}{{cite web\|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Nayrizi.html\|title=Abu'l Abbas al-Fadl ibn Hatim Al-Nayrizi\|date=November 1999\|access-date=19 August 2012\|work=MacTutor History of Mathematics archive\|publisher=University of St Andrews\|first1=J. J.\|last1=O'Connor\|first2=E. F.\|last2=Robertson\|author-link2=Edmund F. Robertson\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927220758/http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Nayrizi.html\|archive-date=27 September 2007}}
{{sort\|Nissim, Jacob ben\|Jacob ben Nissim}}	Philosopher, lived in Kairouan	{{sort\|900\|10th century}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8448-jacob-ben-nissim-ibn-shahin\|title=Jacob Ben Nissim Ibn Shahin\|year=1906\|access-date=7 September 2012\|encyclopedia=Jewish Encyclopedia}}
{{sort\|Noin\|Nōin}} (能因)	Japanese poet	988–1050?{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fQsMvnS79ZYC&q=N%C5%8Din&pg=PA23\|page=23\|title=Traditions of East Asian Travel\|editor-first=Joshua A.\|editor-last=Fogel\|chapter=Travel as Poetic Practice in Medieval and Early Modern Japan\|first=Steven D.\|last=Carter\|publisher=Berghahn Books\|location=New York\|date=15 January 2006\|access-date=13 October 2012\|isbn=184545152X}}
Notker Labeo	German theologian, philologist, mathematician, astronomer, connoisseur of music, and poet	{{sort\|950\|c. 950 – 1022}}{{cite Catholic Encyclopedia\|wstitle=Notker\|volume=11\|first=Franz\|last=Kampers\|first2=Klemens\|last2=Löffler}}
Odo of Cluny	Author of a biography of Gerald of Aurillac, a series of moral essays, some sermons, an epic poem and 12 choral antiphons	878/9–942{{cite Catholic Encyclopedia\|wstitle=St. Odo\|volume=11\|first=Klemens\|last=Löffler}}
{{sort\|Oengus mac Oengusa\|Óengus mac Óengusa}}	Described in the Annals of the Four Masters as the "chief poet of Ireland"	{{sort\|930\|Died 930}}{{sfn\|Anonymous\|1856\|p=625–7}}
{{sort\|Ōnakatomi no Yorimoto\|Ōnakatomi no Yorimoto}} (大中臣頼基)	Japanese poet, one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals	{{sort\|958\|Died 958}}{{sfn\|Frédéric\|2002\|p=818}}
{{sort\|Onakatomi no Yoshinobu\|Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu}} (大中臣能宣)	Japanese poet, one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber	922–991{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cbYhwKSqleQC&q=%C5%8Cnakatomi+no+Yoshinobu&pg=PA235\|page=235\|title=Murmured Conversations: A Treatise on Poetry and Buddhism by the Poet-Monk Shinkei\|first=Esperanza\|last=Ramirez-Christensen\|publisher=Stanford University Press\|location=Palo Alto\|date=16 April 2008\|access-date=26 September 2012\|isbn=978-0804748636}}
Ono no Komachi (小野小町)	Japanese poet	834–900{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uNhpX4fWnbIC&q=Ono+no+Komachi+900&pg=PA101\|page=101\|title=Netsuke: Masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art\|first=Barbra Teri\|last=Okada\|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art\|location=New York\|year=1982\|access-date=17 October 2012\|isbn=0870992732}}
{{sort\|Oshikōchi no Mitsune\|Ōshikōchi no Mitsune}} (凡河内躬恒)	Japanese waka poet	{{sort\|898\|{{floruit}} 898–922}}{{sfn\|Miner et al.\|1988\|p=215}}
{{sort\|Pampa, Adikavi\|Adikavi Pampa}}	Kannada-language poet	902–945{{cite journal\|url=http://pptfun.com/Jaindarpan/Jainbook/Ebooks_English/Jain_Journal_Jainlogy.pdf\|page=75\|journal=Jain Journal\|date=October 2003\|access-date=13 September 2012\|volume=XXXVIII\|issue=2\|issn=0021-4043\|title=Poet Pampa, Jinavallabhaand Andhra: A Retrospection\|first=Kamala\|last=Hampana\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303222415/http://pptfun.com/Jaindarpan/Jainbook/Ebooks_English/Jain_Journal_Jainlogy.pdf\|archive-date=3 March 2016}}
{{sort\|Quhi, Abu Sahl\|Abū Sahl al-Qūhī}}	Astronomer and mathematician from Tabaristan	{{sort\|940\|c. 940 – c. 1000}}{{cite web\|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Quhi.html\|title=Abu Sahl Waijan ibn Rustam al-Quhi\|date=November 1999\|access-date=21 August 2012\|work=MacTutor History of Mathematics archive\|publisher=University of St Andrews\|first1=J. J.\|last1=O'Connor\|first2=E. F.\|last2=Robertson\|author-link2=Edmund F. Robertson}}
Qusta ibn Luqa	Scholar of Greek Christian origin whose work included astronomy, mathematics, medicine and philosophy	{{sort\|820\|Probably c. 820 – probably c. 912–913}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Qusta_ibn_Luqa_al-Balabakki_BEA.htm\|title=Qusṭā ibn Lūqā al‐Baʿlabakkī\|encyclopedia=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers\|year=2007\|access-date=9 September 2012\|publisher=Springer Science+Business Media\|location=New York\|editor-first=Thomas\|editor-last=Hockey\|first=Elaheh\|last=Kheirandish\|pages=948–949\|doi=10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_1138\|isbn=978-0-387-31022-0}}
Ratherius	Author of works including a criticism of the social classes of his time and two defences of his right to the Diocese of Liège	{{sort\|887\|c. 887 – 974}}{{cite Catholic Encyclopedia\|wstitle=Ratherius of Verona\|first=Johann Peter\|last=Kirsch\|volume=12}}
{{sort\|Razi, Muhammad ibn Zakariya al\|Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi}}	Physician, scientist, philosopher and author of alchemy and logic; born in Rey, Iran	865–925{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/hawi-medical-book\|title=Ḥāwi, Al-\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica\|first=Lutz\|last=Richter-Bernburg\|date=15 December 2003\|access-date=9 September 2012\|volume=XIII\|pages=64–67}}
{{sort\|Regino of Prum\|Regino of Prüm}}	Chronicler and author of works on ecclesiastical discipline and liturgical singing, born in Altrip	{{sort\|915\|Died 915}}{{cite CE1913\|wstitle= Regino of Prüm \|volume= 12 \|last= Kirsch \|first= Johann Peter \|author-link= Johann Peter Kirsch \|short=1}}
Richerus	Chronicler from Reims	{{sort\|998\|Died after 998}}{{cite EB1911 \|wstitle=Richerus \|volume=22 \|page=305}}
{{sort\|Rustah, Ahmad ibn\|Ahmad ibn Rustah}}	Persian author of a geographical compendium	{{sort\|903\|Died after 903}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ebn-rosta\|title=Ebn Rosta, Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad\|date=15 December 1997\|access-date=19 August 2012\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica\|volume=VIII\|pages=49–50\|first=C. Edmund\|last=Bosworth\|author-link=Clifford Edmund Bosworth}}
{{sort\|Saghani\|Al-Saghani}}	Mathematician and astronomer who flourished in Turkmenistan	{{sort\|990\|Died 990}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t-BF1CHkc50C&q=al-saghani&pg=PA1004\|title=Ṣāghānī: Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣāghānī [al-Ṣāghānī] al-Asṭurlābī\|encyclopedia=Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers\|first=Roser\|last=Puig\|editor1-first=Virginia\|editor1-last=Trimble\|editor1-link=Virginia Louise Trimble\|editor2-first=Thomas\|editor2-last=Williams\|editor3-first=Katherine\|editor3-last=Bracher\|editor4-first=Richard\|editor4-last=Jarrell\|editor5-first=Jordan D.\|editor5-last=Marché\|editor6-first=F. Jamil\|editor6-last=Ragep\|date=20 November 2007\|access-date=21 August 2012\|publisher=Springer Science+Business Media\|location=New York\|page=1004\|isbn=978-0387310220}}
{{sort\|Sahl, Ibn\|Ibn Sahl}}	Geometer	{{sort\|960\|{{floruit}} late 10th century}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Ibn_Sahl_BEA.htm\|title=Ibn Sahl: Abū Saʿd al‐ʿAlā{{hamza}} ibn Sahl\|encyclopedia=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers\|year=2007\|access-date=8 September 2012\|publisher=Springer Science+Business Media\|location=New York\|editor-first=Thomas\|editor-last=Hockey\|first=Len\|last=Berggren\|page=567\|doi=10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_689}}
Sakanoue no Mochiki	Japanese poet, one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber	{{sort\|950\|{{floruit}} c. 950}}
{{sort\|Sei Shonagon\|Sei Shōnagon}} (清少納言)	Japanese diarist and poet	{{sort\|966\|c. 966 – c. 1025}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/532788/Sei-Shonagon\|title=Sei Shōnagon\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica\|year=2012\|access-date=13 October 2012}}
{{sort\|Sijistani, Abu Sulayman\|Abu Sulayman Sijistani}}	Philosopher from Sijistan	{{sort\|932\|c. 932 – c. 1000}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ip/rep/H040\|title=al-Sijistani, Abu Sulayman Muhammad (c.932-c.1000)\|encyclopedia=Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy\|year=1998\|access-date=7 September 2012\|first=George N.\|last=Atiyeh\|author-link=George N. Atiyeh}}
{{sort\|Sijistani, Abu Yaqub\|Abu Yaqub al-Sijistani}}	Islamic philosopher	{{sort\|971\|{{floruit}} 971}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.iep.utm.edu/sijistan/\|title=Abu Ya'qub al-Sijistani (fl. 971)\|encyclopedia=Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy\|date=14 October 2004\|access-date=7 September 2012\|first=Paul E.\|last=Walker}}
Sijzi	Geometer, astrologer and astronomer, born in Sijistan	{{sort\|945\|c. 945 – c. 1020}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Sijzi_BEA.htm\|title=Sijzī: Abū Saʿīd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al‐Jalīl al‐Sijzī\|encyclopedia=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers\|year=2007\|access-date=8 September 2012\|publisher=Springer Science+Business Media\|location=New York\|editor-first=Thomas\|editor-last=Hockey\|first=Glen\|last=Van Brummelen\|author-link=Glen Van Brummelen\|page=1059\|doi=10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_1279}}
{{sort\|Sinan, Ibrahim\|Ibrahim ibn Sinan}}	Geometer from Baghdad	908–946{{cite web\|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ibrahim.html\|title=Ibrahim ibn Sinan ibn Thabit ibn Qurra\|date=November 1999\|access-date=21 August 2012\|work=MacTutor History of Mathematics archive\|publisher=University of St Andrews\|first1=J. J.\|last1=O'Connor\|first2=E. F.\|last2=Robertson\|author-link2=Edmund F. Robertson}}
{{sort\|Sistani, Farrukhi\|Farrukhi Sistani}}	Court poet of Mahmud of Ghazni	{{sort\|900\|10th–11th centuries}}{{cite encyclopedia\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wWDnTWrz4O8C&q=Farrukhi+Sistani&pg=PA648\|page=648\|chapter=Somanatha Temple\|first=Raman N.\|last=Seylon\|encyclopedia=India Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic\|volume=1\|editor1-first=Arnold P.\|editor1-last=Kaminsky\|editor2-first=Roger D.\|editor2-last=Long\|publisher=ABC-CLIO\|location=Santa Barbara, California\|date=30 September 2011\|access-date=13 September 2012\|isbn=978-0313374623}}
Somadeva Suri	South Indian Jain monk and author of the Upāsakādyayana, a central text of Digambara śrāvakācāra literature	{{sort\|900\|10th century}}{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LW8czr_HzzwC&q=Somadeva+Suri&pg=PA19\|title=The Assembly of Listeners: Jains in Society\|chapter=Somadeva Suri and the question of Jain identity\|page=19\|first=Mukund\|last=Lath\|editor1-first=Michael\|editor1-last=Carrithers\|editor2-first=Caroline\|editor2-last=Humphrey\|editor2-link=Caroline Humphrey\|publisher=Cambridge University Press\|location=Cambridge\|date=4 April 1991\|access-date=11 September 2012\|isbn=0521365058}}
Sosei (素性)	One of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals	859–923{{sfn\|Frédéric\|2002\|p=818}}
{{sort\|Sufi, Abd al-Rahman\|Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi}}	Astronomer in Iran	903–986{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Sufi_BEA.htm\|title=Ṣūfī: Abū al‐Ḥusayn ʿAbd al‐Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar al‐Ṣūfī\|encyclopedia=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers\|year=2007\|access-date=21 August 2012\|publisher=Springer Science+Business Media\|location=New York\|editor-first=Thomas\|editor-last=Hockey\|page=1110\|doi=10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_1346\|first=Paul\|last=Kunitzsch\|display-editors=etal}}
Sugawara no Michizane (菅原道真/菅原道眞)	Japanese statesman, historian and poet	845–903{{sfn\|Frédéric\|2002\|p=908}}
Symeon the Studite	"Spiritual father" of Symeon the New Theologian{{sfn\|Alfeyev\|2000\|p=19}} and author of the "Ascetical Discourse", a narrative intended for monks{{sfn\|Alfeyev\|2000\|p=102}}	917 or 924{{sfn\|Alfeyev\|2000\|p=20}} – c. 986–7{{sfn\|Alfeyev\|2000\|p=27}}
Ukhtanes of Sebastia	Chronicler of the history of Armenia	{{sort\|935\|c. 935 – 1000}}{{sfn\|Hacikyan et al.\|2002\|p=250}}
{{sort\|Uqlidisi, Abu'l-Hasan\|Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi}}	Mathematician, possibly from Damascus	{{sort\|920\|c. 920 – c. 980}}{{cite web\|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Uqlidisi.html\|title=Abu'l Hasan Ahmad ibn Ibrahim Al-Uqlidisi\|date=November 1999\|access-date=8 September 2012\|work=MacTutor History of Mathematics archive\|publisher=University of St Andrews\|first1=J. J.\|last1=O'Connor\|first2=E. F.\|last2=Robertson\|author-link2=Edmund F. Robertson}}
{{sort\|Vatesvara\|Vaṭeśvara}}	Indian mathematician	{{sort\|802\|Born 802 or 880}}{{cite book\|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=DHvThPNp9yMC&q=Vate%C5%9Bvara&pg=PA326 326]\|title=Mathematics in India\|title-link=Mathematics in India (book)\|first=Kim\|last=Plofker\|author-link=Kim Plofker\|year=2009\|publisher=Princeton University Press\|location=Princeton, New Jersey\|isbn=978-0691120676}}
Wang Yucheng (王禹偁)	Chinese Song dynasty poet and official	954–1001
Widukind of Corvey	Saxon historian	{{sort\|1004\|Died c. 1004}}{{cite EB1911 \|last=Holland \|first=Arthur William \|wstitle=Widukind (historian) \|display=Widukind \|volume=28 \|page=620–621}}
Xue Juzheng (薛居正)	Author of the Old History of the Five Dynasties, an account of China's Five Dynasties	912–981
{{sort\|Yunus\|Ibn Yunus}}	Egyptian astronomer and astrologer	950–1009{{cite web\|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Yunus.html\|title=Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Yunus\|date=November 1999\|access-date=21 August 2012\|work=MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive\|publisher=University of St Andrews\|first1=J. J.\|last1=O'Connor\|first2=E. F.\|last2=Robertson\|author-link2=Edmund F. Robertson}}
{{sort\|Yusuf, Ahmad ibn\|Ahmad ibn Yusuf}}	Egyptian mathematician	{{sort\|900\|{{floruit}} c. 900–905, died 912/913}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830900059.html\|title=Aḥmad Ibn Yūsuf\|encyclopedia=Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography\|year=2008\|access-date=8 September 2012\|first=Dorothy V.\|last=Schrader}}
{{sort\|Zahrawi, Abu al-Qasim\|Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi}}	Physician and author of Al-Tasrif, from Al-Andalus	936–1013{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=plS7dJ-e5KMC&q=Abu+al-Qasim+al-Zahrawi&pg=PA10\|page=10\|title=Albucasis (Abu Al-Qasim Al-Zahrawi): Renowned Muslim Surgeon of the Tenth Century\|date=8 February 2006\|access-date=8 September 2012\|first=Fred\|last=Ramen\|publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group\|location=New York\|isbn=1404205101}}

Notes

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Category:History of literature

Name	Description	Dates
class="wikitable sortable"
Abu Firas al-Hamdani	Arab poet	932–968{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/abu-firas-al-hamdani/\|title=Abu Firas Al-Hamdani (932–968)\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Universalis\|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.\|location=Chicago\|first=André\|last=Miquel}}
{{sort\|Abu Kamil Shuja' ibn Aslam\|Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam}}	Algebraist	{{sort\|850\|{{Circa\|850\|930}}}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830900029.html\|title=Abū Kāmil ShujāʿIbn Aslam Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Shujāʿ\|encyclopedia=Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography\|year=2008\|access-date=7 September 2012\|first=Martin\|last=Levey}}
{{sort\|Aelfric of Eynsham\|Ælfric of Eynsham}}	Author of homilies in Old English, and three works to assist in learning Latin, the Grammar, the Glossary and the Colloquy (probably with Aelfric Bata. Also a Bible translator	{{sort\|955\|{{Circa\|955\|1010}}}}{{cite Catholic Encyclopedia\|wstitle=Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham\|first=Herbert\|last=Thurston\|authorlink=Herbert Thurston\|volume=1}}
{{sort\|Aethelweard\|Æthelweard}}	Anglo-Saxon historian	{{sort\|973\|Before 973 – {{Circa\|998}}}}{{cite EB1911 \|wstitle=Æthelweard \|volume=1 \|pages=291–292}}
Akazome Emon (赤染衛門)	Japanese waka poet	{{sort\|976\|{{floruit}} 976–1041}}{{sfn\|Miner et al.\|1988\|p=141}}
{{sort\|Al-Amiri, Abu al-Hassan\|Abu al-Hassan al-Amiri}}	Philosopher born in modern Iran	{{sort\|992\|Died 992}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ip/rep/H041\|title=al-'Amiri, Abu'l Hasan Muhammad ibn Yusuf (d. 992)\|encyclopedia=Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy\|year=1998\|access-date=7 September 2012\|first=Tom\|last=Gaskill\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606174417/http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ip/rep/H041\|archive-date=6 June 2011}}
Al-Maʿarri	Arab poet born near Aleppo, Syria	973–1057{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/353491/al-Maarri\|title=al-Maʿarrī\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica\|year=2012\|access-date=14 September 2012}}
Al-Masudi	Arab historian and geographer	{{sort\|893\|{{Circa\|896}} – 956}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/368842/al-Masudi\|title=al-Masʿūdī\|year=2012\|access-date=16 August 2012\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica}}
Al-Mutanabbi	Arabic poet	915–965{{cite journal\|url=http://www.alshindagah.com/sepoct2003/almutanabbi.html\|title=Al Mutanabbi: The Greatest Arabic Poet\|journal=AlShindagah\|first=Martin\|last=Nick\|date=September–October 2003\|access-date=9 September 2012\|issue=54}}
{{sort\|Al-Nadim, Ibn\|Ibn al-Nadim}}	Author of the Fehrest, an encyclopedia	{{sort\|932\|{{Circa\|932\|990}}}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/fehrest\|title=Fehrest\|date=15 December 1999\|access-date=21 August 2012\|first1=Rudolf\|last1=Sellheim\|first2=Mohsen\|last2=Zakeri\|first3=François\|last3=de Blois\|first4=Werner\|last4=Sundermann\|volume=IX\|pages=475–483\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica}}
Al-Natili	Arabic-language author in the medical field	{{sort\|985\|{{floruit}} {{Circa\|985}}–90}}{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9yTFnuWQKvkC&q=Al-Natili&pg=PA305\|page=305\|chapter=Medicine, pharmacology and veterinary science in Islamic eastern Iran and Central Asia\|first=L.\|last=Richter-Bernburg\|title=History of Civilizations of Central Asia\|volume=IV\|editor1-first=Ahmad Hasan\|editor1-last=Dani\|editor1-link=Ahmad Hasan Dani\|editor2-first=Vadim Mikhaĭlovich\|editor2-last=Masson\|year=1992\|access-date=8 September 2012\|publisher=UNESCO\|location=Paris\|isbn=9231036548}}
Alchabitius	Author of Al-madkhal ilā sināʿat Aḥkām al-nujūm, a treatise on astrology; from Iraq	{{sort\|950\|{{floruit}} {{Circa\|950}}}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830903546.html\|title=Al-Qabīṣī, Abū Al-Ṣaqr 'Abd Al-'Azīz Ibn 'Uthmān Ibn 'Alī\|encyclopedia=Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography\|year=2008\|access-date=19 August 2012\|first=David\|last=Pingree\|author-link=David Pingree}}
Aldred the Scribe	Author of the glosses in the Lindisfarne Gospels	{{sort\|900\|10th century}}{{cite DNB \|wstitle= Aldred the Glossator (10th cent.) \|volume= 01 \|last= Thompson \|first= Edward Maunde \|author-link= Edward Maunde Thompson \|pages= 248-249 \|short= 1}}
Alhazen	Mathematician, died in Cairo	{{sort\|965\|{{Circa\|965\|1040}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830901904.html\|title= Ibn Al-Haytham, Abū ʿAlī Al-Ḥasan Ibn Al-Ḥasan\|year=2008\|access-date=7 September 2012\|encyclopedia=Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography\|first=A. I.\|last=Sabra\|author-link=A. I. Sabra}}}}
Asser	Welsh biographer and bishop, died in Sherborne	died 909Patrick Wormald, "Asser (d. 909)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, UK: OUP, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/810 Retrieved 2 June 2016]
Bal'ami	Vizier to the Samanids and translator of the Ṭabarī into Persian	{{sort\|992\|Died c. 992–7}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/amirak-balami-name-given-to-abu-ali-mohammad-also-called-baami-e-kucek-the-lesser-younger-son-of-abul-fazl-mohammad-b \|title=Amīrak Balʿamī \|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica \|date=15 December 1989 \|access-date=21 August 2012 \|volume=I \|pages=971–972 \|first=Dj. \|last=Khaleghi-Motlagh \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121117001245/http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/amirak-balami-name-given-to-abu-ali-mohammad-also-called-baami-e-kucek-the-lesser-younger-son-of-abul-fazl-mohammad-b \|archive-date=17 November 2012 }}
{{sort\|Balkhi, Abu-Shakur\|Abu-Shakur Balkhi}}	Persian writer	915–960s{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ELrRr0L8UOsC&q=Abu-Shakur+Balkhi&pg=PA372\|page=372\|title=History of Civilizations of Central Asia\|chapter=Persian literature\|first=A.\|last=Afsahzod\|editor1-first=C. E.\|editor1-last=Bosworth\|editor1-link=Clifford Edmund Bosworth\|editor2-first=M. S.\|editor2-last=Asimov\|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass\|location=Delhi\|year=2003\|access-date=17 October 2012\|isbn=8120815963\|volume=IV\|version=Part Two}}
{{sort\|Balkhi, Abu Zayd\|Abu Zayd al-Balkhi}}	Persian Muslim polymath	849–934{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/abu-zayd-balki\|title=Abū Zayd Balḵī\|date=15 December 1983\|access-date=16 August 2012\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica\|volume=I\|pages=399–400\|first=W. M.\|last=Watt\|author-link=William Montgomery Watt}}
{{sort\|Balkhi, Rabia\|Rabia Balkhi}}	Arabic- and Persian-language poet	{{sort\|940\|Died 940}}{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bY8ck6iktikC&q=Rabia+Balkhi+poet&pg=PA86\|title=Culture and Customs of Afghanistan\|page=86\|first=Hafizullah\|last=Emadi\|author-link=Hafizullah Emadi\|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group\|location=Westport, Connecticut\|year=2005\|access-date=12 September 2012\|isbn=0313330891}}
Bard Boinne	Described in the Annals of the Four Masters as the "chief poet of Ireland"	{{sort\|932\|Died 932}}{{sfn\|Anonymous\|1856\|p=627–9}}
{{sort\|Battani, Muḥammad ibn Jabir al-Harrani\|Muḥammad ibn Jābir al-Ḥarrānī al-Battānī}}	Arab astronomer	{{sort\|850\|c. 850 – c. 929}}{{cite EB1911\| \|wstitle=Albategnius \|volume=1 \|page=491}}
{{sort\|Ben Abraham al-Fasi, David\|David ben Abraham al-Fasi}}	Karaite lexicographer from Fes	{{sort\|900\|10th century}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4927-david-ben-abraham\|title=David ben Abraham (Arabic name, Abu Sulaiman Da'ud al-Fasi)\|encyclopedia=Jewish Encyclopedia\|year=1906\|access-date=11 September 2012}}
{{sort\|Biruni, Abu Rayhan\|Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī}}	Scholar and polymath of the late Samanids and early Ghaznavids	973 – after 1050{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/biruni-abu-rayhan-index\|title=Bīrūnī, Abū Rayḥān\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica\|date=15 December 1989\|access-date=8 September 2012\|volume=IV\|page=274}}
{{sort\|Buzjani, Abu al-Wafa'\|Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī}}	Mathematician and astronomer; author of Kitāb fī mā yaḥtaj ilayh al-kuttāb wa'l-ʿummāl min {{hamza}}ilm al-ḥisāb, an arithmetic textbook; of Persian descent	940 – 997 or 998{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830900031.html\|title=Abū'l-Wafā{{hamza}} Al-Būzjānī, Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Yaḥyā Ibn Ismāʿīl Ibn Al-ʿAbbās\|encyclopedia=Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography\|year=2008\|first=A. P.\|last=Youschkevitch\|author-link=Adolph P. Yushkevich\|access-date=6 September 2012}}
Cináed ua hArtacáin	Irish poet and author of dinsenchas poems	{{sort\|974\|Died 974}}{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3cHdQC1cXLEC&q=Cin%C3%A1ed+ua+hArtac%C3%A1in&pg=PA273\|title=The Celts: History, Life, and Culture\|page=273\|chapter=Dindshenchas\|first=Kay\|last=Muhr\|volume=1\|editor1-first=John Thomas\|editor1-last=Koch\|editor2-first=Antone\|editor2-last=Minard\|editor1-link=John T. Koch\|publisher=ABC-CLIO\|location=Santa Barbara, California\|date=31 August 2012\|access-date=12 September 2012\|isbn=978-1598849646}}
Constantine VII	Byzantine emperor and author of {{Lang\|la\|De Administrando Imperio}} and De Ceremoniis	905–959{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/133971/Constantine-VII-Porphyrogenitus\|title=Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus\|year=2012\|access-date=11 September 2012\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica}}
{{sort\|Daqiqi, Abu-Mansur\|Abu-Mansur Daqiqi}}	Poet, probably born in Ṭūs	{{sort\|932\|After 932 – c. 976}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/daqiqi-abu-mansur-ahmad-b\|title=Daqīqī, Abū Manṣūr Aḥmad\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica\|first=Djalal\|last=Khaleghi-Motlagh\|date=15 December 1993\|access-date=14 September 2012\|volume=VI\|pages=661–662}}
{{sort\|Donnolo, Shabbethai\|Shabbethai Donnolo}}	Italian physician and writer on medicine and astrology	913 – after 982{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5279-donnolo\|title=Donnolo (Δομνουλος, diminutive of "Dominus"), or Shabbethai b. Abraham b. Joel\|encyclopedia=Jewish Encyclopedia\|year=1906\|access-date=9 September 2012}}
{{sort\|Egill Skallagrimsson\|Egill Skallagrímsson}}	Viking skald and adventurer	{{sort\|910\|c. 910 – c. 990}}{{cite web\|url=http://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/1/777777122294/\|title=Egil Skallagrimsson and the Viking Ideal\|year=2001\|access-date=22 September 2012\|first=Christina\|last=Von Nolcken\|publisher=University of Chicago Library}}
{{sort\|Eilifr Godrunarson\|Eilífr Goðrúnarson}}	Icelandic skald	{{sort\|1000\|c. 1000}}{{cite web\|url=http://abdn.ac.uk/skaldic/db.php?if=default&table=skalds&id=46\|title=Eilífr Goðrúnarson (Eil)\|access-date=17 September 2012\|work=Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages\|publisher=University of Aberdeen\|archive-date=21 March 2015\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150321035620/http://abdn.ac.uk/skaldic/db.php?table=skalds&id=46&if=default}}
Einarr Helgason	Skald for Norwegian ruler Haakon Sigurdsson	{{sort\|960\|{{floruit}} late 10th century}}{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZxiFu_jm_6UC&q=Einarr+Helgason&pg=PA34\|page=34\|title=A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics\|first=Margaret\|last=Clunies Ross\|author-link=Margaret Clunies Ross\|publisher=D. S. Brewer\|location=Cambridge\|date=18 August 2011\|access-date=16 September 2012\|isbn=978-1843842798}}
{{sort\|Eutychius of Alexandria\|Patriarch Eutychius of Alexandria}}	Author of a history of the world and treatises on medicine and theology	876–940{{cite CE1913 \|last=Fortescue \|first=Adrian \|authorlink=Adrian Fortescue \|wstitle=Eutychius, Melchite Patriarch of Alexandria \|volume=5 }}
Eysteinn Valdason	Icelandic skald	{{sort\|1000\|c. 1000}}{{cite web\|url=http://abdn.ac.uk/skaldic/db.php?if=default&table=skalds&id=40\|title=Eysteinn Valdason (EVald)\|access-date=17 September 2012\|work=Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages\|publisher=University of Aberdeen\|archive-date=12 May 2015\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150512044046/http://abdn.ac.uk/skaldic/db.php?table=skalds&id=40&if=default}}
{{sort\|Eyvindr skaldaspillir\|Eyvindr skáldaspillir}}	Icelandic skald	{{sort\|990\|Died c. 990}}{{cite web\|url=http://abdn.ac.uk/skaldic/db.php?if=default&table=skalds&id=57\|title=Eyvindr skáldaspillir Finnsson (Eyv)\|access-date=17 September 2012\|work=Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages\|publisher=University of Aberdeen\|archive-date=18 July 2014\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718001705/https://www.abdn.ac.uk/skaldic/db.php?table=skalds&id=57&if=default}}
{{sort\|Farabi\|Al-Farabi}}	Muslim philosopher	{{sort\|878\|c. 878 – {{Circa\|950}}}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/201680/al-Farabi\|title=al-Fārābī\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica\|year=2012\|access-date=7 September 2012}}
{{sort\|Faraj al-Isfahani, Abu\|Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani}}	Literary scholar and author of an encyclopedic work on Arabic music	897–967{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/2072/Abu-al-Faraj-al-Isbahani\|title=Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī\|access-date=21 August 2012\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica}}
Ferdowsi	Persian poet and author of the Shahnameh, the Persian national epic	{{sort\|935\|{{Circa\|935\|1020–26}}}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/204578/Ferdowsi\|title=Ferdowsī\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica\|first=John Andrew\|last=Boyle\|year=2012\|access-date=11 September 2012}}
Flodoard	French historian and chronicler	894–966{{cite CE1913\|wstitle= Flodoard \|volume= 6 \|last= Remy \|first= Arthur Frank Joseph \|author-link= \|short=1}}
Frithegod	British poet, author of Breviloquium vitae Wilfridi, a version of Stephen of Ripon's Vita Sancti Wilfrithi written in hexameters	{{sort\|950\|{{floruit}} {{Circa\|950}} – c. 958}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10190\|title= Frithegod [Frithegode, Fredegaud] (fl. c.950–c.958), cleric and poet\|encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography\|year=2004\|access-date=12 September 2012\|first=Michael\|last=Lapidge\|author-link=Michael Lapidge\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|location=Oxford\|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/10190\|url-access=subscription}}
Fujiwara no Asatada (藤原公任)	One of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals	{{sort\|910\|c. 910 – c. 966}}{{sfn\|Frédéric\|2002\|p=818}}
{{sort\|Fujiwara no Kinto\|Fujiwara no Kintō (藤原公任)}}	Japanese poet and critic responsible for the initial gathering of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals	966–1041{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gf3Mj3zO0PgC&q=Fujiwara+no+Kint%C5%8D&pg=PA40\|title=Hitomaro: Poet As God\|page=40\|first=Anne\|last=Commons\|publisher=Brill Publishers\|location=Leiden\|date=30 April 2009\|access-date=24 September 2012\|isbn=978-9004174610}}
Fujiwara no Takamitsu (藤原高光)	Japanese poet, one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals	{{sort\|994\|Died 994}}{{sfn\|Frédéric\|2002\|p=818}}
Fujiwara no Tametoki (藤原為時)	Japanese waka and kanshi poet and father of Murasaki Shikibu{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VIzfsTdB0QgC&q=Fujiwara+no+Tametoki&pg=PA11\|page=11\|title=Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji\|editor-first=Harold\|editor-last=Bloom\|editor-link=Harold Bloom\|chapter=The Tale of Genji\|first=Donald\|last=Keene\|author-link=Donald Keene\|publisher=Infobase Publishing\|location=New York\|year=2004\|access-date=28 September 2012\|isbn=0791075842}}	{{sort\|960\|Late 10th – early 11th century}}{{sfn\|Cranston\|2006\|p=1140}}
Fujiwara no Toshiyuki (藤原敏行)	Japanese poet	{{sort\|901\|Died c. 901}}{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lb9FRUMmucoC&q=Fujiwara+no+Toshiyuki&pg=PA103\|page=103\|title=Optical Allusions: Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (ca. 800–1200)\|first=Joseph T.\|last=Sorensen\|publisher=Brill Publishers\|location=Leiden\|date=6 July 2012\|access-date=28 September 2012\|isbn=978-9004219311}}
{{sort\|Gilani, Kushyar\|Kushyar Gilani}}	Iranian astronomer	{{sort\|950\|{{floruit}} second half of the 10th/early 11th century}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Ibn_Labban_BEA.htm\|title=Ibn Labbān, Kūshyār: Kiyā Abū al‐Ḥasan Kūshyār ibn Labbān Bāshahrī al‐Jīlī (Gīlānī)\|encyclopedia=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers\|year=2007\|publisher=Springer Science+Business Media\|location=New York\|editor-first=Thomas\|editor-last=Hockey\|pages=560–561\|first=Mohammad\|last=Bagheri\|access-date=8 September 2012\|doi=10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_807\|isbn=978-0-387-31022-0}}
Guthormr sindri	Norwegian skald	{{sort\|900\|10th century}}{{cite web\|url=http://abdn.ac.uk/skaldic/db.php?table=skalds&id=77\|title=Guthormr sindri (Gsind)\|access-date=21 September 2012\|work=Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages\|publisher=University of Aberdeen\|archive-date=9 October 2012\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009082507/http://abdn.ac.uk/skaldic/db.php?table=skalds&id=77}}
{{sort\|ha-Babli, Nathan ben Isaac\|Nathan ben Isaac ha-Babli}}	Babylonian historian	{{sort\|900\|10th century}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11357-nathan-ben-isaac-ha-kohen-hababli\|title=Nathan Ben Isaac Ha-Kohen Hababli\|encyclopedia=Jewish Encyclopedia\|year=1906\|access-date=6 September 2012}}
{{sort\|Hallfredr vandraeoaskald\|Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld}}	Icelandic skald{{cite web\|url=http://abdn.ac.uk/skaldic/db.php?if=default&table=skalds&id=105\|title=Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld Óttarsson (Hfr)\|access-date=23 September 2012\|work=Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages\|publisher=University of Aberdeen\|archive-date=11 May 2015\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150511171113/http://abdn.ac.uk/skaldic/db.php?table=skalds&id=105&if=default}}	{{sort\|1007\|Died c. 1007}}{{cite book\|url=http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/FJ-Litteraturhist.Bd.1_-_Hallfre%C3%B0r_vandr%C3%A6%C3%B0ask%C3%A1ld_%C3%93ttarsson\|title=Den oldnorske og oldislandske litteraturs historie\|volume=1\|editor-first=Finnur\|editor-last=Jónsson\|editor-link=Finnur Jónsson\|edition=2nd\|publisher=G. E. C. Gads Forlag\|location=Copenhagen\|chapter=Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld Óttarsson\|first=C.\|last=Fyrsteskjalde\|access-date=23 September 2012}}
{{sort\|Hamadani, Badi' al-Zaman\|Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani}}	Arabic belle-lettrist and inventor of the maqāma genre	968–1008{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/badi-al-zaman-hamadani-abul-fazl-ahmad-b\|title=Badīʿ-al-Zamān Hamadānī\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica\|first=F.\|last=Malti-Douglas\|date=15 December 1988\|access-date=11 September 2012\|volume=III\|pages=377–379}}
{{sort\|Hamdani, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan\|Abū Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdānī}}	Arabian geographer	{{sort\|945\|Died 945}}{{cite EB1911 \|last=Thatcher \|first=Griffithes Wheeler \|wstitle=Hamdānī \|volume=12 \|pages=875–876}}
Hovhannes Draskhanakerttsi	Armenian man of letters	{{sort\|840\|c. 840 – c. 930}}{{sfn\|Hacikyan et al.\|2002\|p=229}}
Hrotsvitha	German dramatist and poet	{{sort\|935\|c. 935 – c. 1002}}{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mpc53LXRvIQC&q=hrotsvit+935&pg=PA169\|chapter=Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (c. 935 – c. 975)\|title=Catholic Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook\|year=2001\|access-date=15 August 2012\|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group\|location=Westport, Connecticut\|editor-first=Mary R.\|editor-last=Reichardt\|isbn=0313311471\|first=Deanna\|last=Delmar Evans\|page=169}}
Ibn al-Faqih	Persian historian and geographer	{{sort\|903\|Died 903}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DJgnebGbAB8C&q=ibn+al-faqih+geographer&pg=PA45\|title=Arab geographers\|page=45\|first=Andrew J.\|last=Waskey\|editor-first=R. W.\|editor-last=McColl\|volume=1\|date=1 January 2005\|access-date=16 August 2012\|publisher=Infobase Publishing\|location=New York\|isbn=0816072299\|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of World Geography}}
Ibn al-Jazzar	Physician	{{sort\|970\|Died 970/980}}{{cite journal\|url=http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/v071/71.4br_ibn_al-jazzar.html\|title=Ibn al-Jazzar on Forgetfulness and Its Treatment: Critical Edition of the Arabic Text and the Hebrew Translations, with Commentary and Translation into English (review)\|journal=Bulletin of the History of Medicine\|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press\|location=Baltimore\|first=G. A.\|last=Russell\|date=Winter 1997\|access-date=8 September 2012\|volume=71\|issue=4\|pages=704–706\|doi=10.1353/bhm.1997.0184\|s2cid=72385358\|url-access=subscription}}
{{sort\|Ibn al-Qutiyya\|Ibn al-Qūṭiyya}}	Historian of Muslim Spain, born in Seville and of Visigothic descent{{cite book\|url=https://archive.org/details/medievaliberiare00cons\|url-access=registration\|quote=Ibn al-Qūṭiyya.\|chapter=An Uprising Against the Amir Al-Ḥakam (796–822)\|editor-first=Olivia Remie\|editor-last=Constable\|first=Olivia Remie\|last=Constable\|title=Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources\|page=[https://archive.org/details/medievaliberiare00cons/page/45 45]\|year=1997\|access-date=6 September 2012\|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press\|location=Philadelphia\|isbn=0812215699}}	{{sort\|977\|Died 977}}{{cite journal\|jstor=600444\|title=The Historical Arjūza of ibn ʿAbd Rabbihi, a Tenth-Century Hispano-Arabic Epic Poem\|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society\|publisher=American Oriental Society\|first=James T.\|last=Monroe\|author-link=James T. Monroe\|volume=91\|issue=1\|date=January–March 1971\|page=69\|location=Baltimore\|doi=10.2307/600444}}
Ibn Duraid	Arabian poet	837–934{{cite EB1911\|wstitle=Ibn Duraid \|volume=14 \|page=220}}
Ibn Hawqal	Author of Kitāb al-masālik wa'l-mamālik, a book on geography; born in Nisibis	{{sort\|950\|Second half of the 10th century – after 988}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=raKRY3KQspsC&q=Ibn+Hawqal&pg=PA419\|title=Ibn Hawqal\|encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures\|date=31 July 1997\|access-date=19 August 2012\|first=Emilia\|last=Calvo\|page=419\|publisher=Kluwer Academic Publishers\|location=Dordrecht\|editor-first=Helaine\|editor-last=Selin\|editor-link=Helaine Selin\|isbn=0792340663}}
Ibn Juljul	Author of Tabaqāt al atibbā{{hamza}} wa'l-hukamả, a summary of the history of medicine	944 – c. 994{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830902231.html\|title=Ibn Juljul, Sulaymān Ibn Ḥasan\|encyclopedia=Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography\|year=2008\|access-date=6 September 2012\|first=J.\|last=Vernet}}
Ibn Khordadbeh	Author on subjects including history, genealogy, geography, music, and wines and cookery; of Persian descent	{{sort\|820\|c. 820 – c. 912}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830902298.html\|title=Ibn Khurradādhbih (or Ibn Khurdādhbih), Abu'l-Qāsim 'Ubayd Allāh 'Abd Allāh\|encyclopedia=Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography\|year=2008\|access-date=19 August 2012\|first=S. Maqbul\|last=Ahmad}}
Ioane-Zosime	Georgian religious writer, hymnographer and translator	{{sort\|900\|10th century}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.georgianbiography.com/bios/i/ioane_zosime.htm\|title=Ioane-Zosime\|encyclopedia=Dictionary of Georgian National Biography\|access-date=12 September 2012\|first=Givi\|last=Koberidze\|year=2007\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216123010/http://www.georgianbiography.com/bios/i/ioane_zosime.htm\|archive-date=16 February 2012}}
{{sort\|Ise, Lady\|Lady Ise}} (伊勢)	Japanese waka poet,{{cite web\|url=http://www.temcauley.staff.shef.ac.uk/ise.shtml\|title=Ise\|work=2001 Waka for Japan 2001\|year=2001\|access-date=12 September 2012\|publisher=University of Sheffield\|first=Thomas\|last=McAuley\|archive-date=27 July 2011\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727092528/http://www.temcauley.staff.shef.ac.uk/ise.shtml}} mother of Nakatsukasa{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q9eFckEQAMkC&q=Nakatsukasa+912&pg=PA267\|title=Japanese Women Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook\|page=267\|first=Joseph\|last=Parker\|chapter=Nakatsukasa no Naishi (Lady Nakatsukasa, fl. ca. 1250–92)\|editor-first=Chieko Irie\|editor-last=Mulhern\|year=1994\|access-date=12 September 2012\|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group\|location=Westport, Connecticut\|isbn=0313254869}}	{{sort\|877\|c. 877 – c. 940}}
{{sort\|Israeli, Isaac ben Solomon\|Isaac Israeli ben Solomon}}	Physician and philosopher, born in Egypt	832–932{{cite encyclopedia \|year=1906 \|title=Israeli, Isaac Ben Solomon (Abu Ya'ḳub Isḥaḳ Ibn Sulaiman Alisra'Ili; generally known as Isaac Israeli and sometimes as Isaac Israeli the Elder) \|encyclopedia=Jewish Encyclopedia \|url=http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8297-israeli-isaac-ben-solomon-abu-ya-kub-ishak-ibn-sulaiman-alisra-ili \|access-date=8 September 2012}}
{{sort\|Israel the Grammarian\|Israel the Grammarian}}	European scholar, poet and bishop	c. 895–c. 965{{cite encyclopedia\|last=Lapidge\|first=Michael\|year=2001\|title=Israel the Grammarian\|editor=Lapidge, Michael \|editor2=Blair, John \|editor3=Keynes, Simon \|editor4=Scragg, Donald \|encyclopedia=The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England\|publisher=Blackwell Publishing\|location=Oxford\|isbn=978-0-631-22492-1}}
Izumi Shikibu (和泉式部)	Japanese waka poet	{{sort\|976\|Born c. 976}}{{cite web\|url=http://www.temcauley.staff.shef.ac.uk/izumi.shtml\|title=Izumi Shikibu\|work=2001 Waka for Japan 2001\|year=2001\|access-date=12 September 2012\|publisher=University of Sheffield}}
{{sort\|Jacob, Abraham ben\|Abraham ben Jacob}}	Spanish Jewish geographer	{{sort\|950\|{{floruit}} second half of the 10th century}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830902123.html\|title=Ibrāhīm Ibn Ya'qūb Al-Isrā'īlī Al-Turṭushi\|encyclopedia=Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography\|year=2008\|access-date=6 September 2012\|first=Martin\|last=Levey}}
Jayadeva	Indian mathematician	{{sort\|1073\|Lived before 1073}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=raKRY3KQspsC&q=Jayadeva+%28mathematician%29&pg=PA472\|title=Jayadeva\|first=K. V.\|last=Sarma\|author-link=K. V. Sarma\|page=472\|encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures\|editor-first=Helaine\|editor-last=Selin\|editor-link=Helaine Selin\|date=31 July 1997\|access-date=8 September 2012\|publisher=Springer Science+Business Media\|location=Dordrecht\|isbn=0792340663}}
{{sort\|Karaji\|Al-Karaji}}	Mathematician, lived in Baghdad	953 – c. 1029{{cite web\|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Al-Karaji.html\|title=Abu Bekr ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn Al-Karaji\|date=July 1999\|access-date=8 September 2012\|work=MacTutor History of Mathematics archive\|publisher=University of St Andrews\|first1=J. J.\|last1=O'Connor\|first2=E. F.\|last2=Robertson\|author-link2=Edmund F. Robertson}}
{{sort\|Khazin, Abu Ja'far\|Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin}}	Astronomer and number theorist from Khurasan	{{sort\|900\|c. 900 – c. 971}}{{cite web\|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Khazin.html\|title=Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn al-Hasan Al-Khazin\|date=July 1999\|access-date=19 August 2012\|work=MacTutor History of Mathematics archive\|publisher=University of St Andrews\|first1=J. J.\|last1=O'Connor\|first2=E. F.\|last2=Robertson\|author-link2=Edmund F. Robertson}}
{{sort\|Khojandi, Abu-Mahmud\|Abu-Mahmud Khojandi}}	Astronomer and mathematician born in Khujand	{{sort\|945\|c. 945 – 1000}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Khujandi_BEA.htm\|title=Khujandī: Abū Maḥmūd Ḥāmid ibn al‐Khiḍr al‐Khujandī\|encyclopedia=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers\|year=2007\|access-date=19 August 2012\|publisher=Springer Science+Business Media\|location=New York\|editor-first=Thomas\|editor-last=Hockey\|doi=10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_762\|first=Glen\|last=Van Brummelen\|pages=630–631\|isbn=978-0-387-31022-0\|display-editors=etal}}
{{sort\|Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad\|Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi}}	Author of Mafātih al-'ulũm (Keys of the Sciences)	{{sort\|975\|{{floruit}} c. 975}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830902299.html\|title= Al-Khuwārizmī, Abū 'Abd Allāh Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad Ibn Yūsuf\|encyclopedia=Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography\|first=J.\|last=Vernet\|year=2008\|access-date=11 September 2012}}
Ki no Tokibumi	Japanese poet, one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber	{{sort\|950\|{{floruit}} {{Circa\|950}}}}
Ki no Tomonori (紀時文)	Japanese waka poet and one of the compilers of the Kokin Wakashū	{{sort\|850\|c. 850 – c. 904}}{{cite web\|url=http://www.temcauley.staff.shef.ac.uk/tomonori.shtml\|title=Ki no Tomonori\|year=2001\|first=Thomas\|last=McAuley\|work=2001 Waka for Japan 2001\|publisher=University of Sheffield\|access-date=23 September 2012}}
Ki no Tsurayuki (紀貫之)	Japanese waka poet, critic and diarist; one of the compilers of the Kokin Wakashū	{{sort\|872\|c. 872 – c. 945}}{{cite web\|url=http://www.temcauley.staff.shef.ac.uk/tsurayuki.shtml\|title=Ki no Tsurayuki\|year=2001\|first=Thomas\|last=McAuley\|work=2001 Waka for Japan 2001\|publisher=University of Sheffield\|access-date=23 September 2012\|archive-date=28 July 2013\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728111121/http://www.temcauley.staff.shef.ac.uk/tsurayuki.shtml}}
Kishi Joō (徽子女王)	Japanese poet and one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals	929–985{{cite web\|url=http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/singleObject.cfm?ObjectNumber=F1950.24\|title=Portrait of the poetess, Saigu no Nyogo Yoshiko\|year=2012\|access-date=12 September 2012\|publisher=Smithsonian Institution\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205142306/http://asia.si.edu/collections/singleObject.cfm?ObjectNumber=F1950.24\|archive-date=5 December 2014}}
Kiyohara no Motosuke (清原元輔)	Japanese poet: one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber and the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals, and father of Sei Shōnagon{{sfn\|Frédéric\|2002\|p=532}}	908–990{{sfn\|Frédéric\|2002\|p=532}}
Leo the Deacon	Byzantine historian	{{sort\|950\|Born {{Circa\|950}}}}{{cite CE1913\|wstitle= Leo Diaconus \|volume= 9 \|last= Fortescue \|first= Adrian \|author-link= Adrian Fortescue \|short=1}}
Liutprand of Cremona	Italian historian and author	{{sort\|922\|c. 922 – 972}}{{cite EB1911 \|wstitle=Liudprand \|volume=16 \|page=800}}
Luo Yin (羅隱)	Japanese poet	833–909{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nB1feh4lXw4C&q=%22Luo+Yin%22&pg=PA215\|page=215\|title=Harmony Garden: The Life, Literary Criticism, and Poetry of Yuan Mei (1716–1798)\|first=J. D.\|last=Schmidt\|publisher=Routledge\|location=London\|date=6 January 2003\|access-date=17 October 2012\|isbn=0700715258}}
{{sort\|Majusi, Ali ibn al-'Abbas\|'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi}}	Author of Kāmil al-Ṣinā'ah al-Tibbiyyah, a compendium; born near Shiraz	{{sort\|900\|First quarter of the 10th century – 994}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830902779.html\|title=Al-Majūsī, Abu'l-Ḥasan 'Alī Ibn 'Abbās\|encyclopedia=Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography\|year=2008\|access-date=8 September 2012\|first=Sami\|last=Hamarneh}}
{{sort\|Mansur, Abu Nasr\|Abu Nasr Mansur}}	Astronomer, born in Gīlān	{{sort\|950\|{{Circa\|950\|1036}}}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Ibn_Iraq_BEA.htm\|title=Ibn ʿIrāq: Abū Naṣr Manṣūr ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿIrāq\|encyclopedia=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers\|editor-first=Thomas\|editor-last=Hockey\|year=2007\|access-date=8 September 2012\|publisher=Springer Science+Business Media\|location=New York\|first=J. Len\|last=Berggren\|doi=10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_680\|pages=557–558}}
Mansur Al-Hallaj	Arabic-speaking mystic and author of the Ṭawāsin, a collection of 11 reflective essays; born near Beyza	857–922{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/hallaj-1\|title=Ḥallāj, Abu'l-Moḡiṯ Ḥosayn\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica\|first=Jawid\|last=Mojaddedi\|author-link=Jawid Mojaddedi\|date=15 December 2003\|access-date=15 September 2012\|volume=XI\|pages=589–592}}
{{sort\|Meskavayh, Ebn\|Ebn Meskavayh}}	Persian writer on topics including history, theology, philosophy and medicine	{{sort\|1030\|Died 1030}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/meskavayh-abu-ali-ahmad\|title=Meskavayh, Abu ʿAli Aḥmad\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica\|year=2002\|access-date=6 September 2012\|first=C. Edmund\|last=Bosworth\|author-link=Clifford Edmund Bosworth}}
{{sort\|Metaphrast, Symeon\|Symeon the Metaphrast}}	Principal compiler of the legends of saints in the Menologia of the Greek Orthodox Church	{{sort\|950\|Second half of the 10th century}}{{cite CE1913\|wstitle= Symeon Metaphrastes \|volume= 10 \|last= Fortescue \|first= Adrian \|author-link= Adrian Fortescue \|short=1}}
Mibu no Tadamine	Japanese waka poet{{cite web\|url=http://www.temcauley.staff.shef.ac.uk/tadamine.shtml\|title=Mibu no Tadamine\|year=2001\|first=Thomas\|last=McAuley\|work=2001 Waka for Japan 2001\|publisher=University of Sheffield\|access-date=23 September 2012}} and one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals	{{sort\|898\|{{floruit}} 898–920}}{{sfn\|Frédéric\|2002\|p=818}}
Michitsuna no Haha ( 藤原道綱母)	Author of Kagerō nikki (The Gossamer Years)	{{sort\|995\|Died 995}}{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UIajAAAAIAAJ&q=Michitsuna+no+Haha&pg=PA24\|title=The Woman's Hand: Gender and Theory in Japanese Women's Writing\|page=24\|chapter=Special Address: Without Beginning, Without End\|last=Ōba Minako\|author-link=Oba Minako\|editor1-first=Paul\|editor1-last=Schalow\|editor2-first=Janet\|editor2-last=Walker\|publisher=Stanford University Press\|location=Palo Alto\|date=1 October 1996\|access-date=12 September 2012\|isbn=0804727228}}
Minamoto no Kintada (源公忠)	Japanese poet and one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals	889–948{{sfn\|Frédéric\|2002\|p=818}}
Minamoto no Muneyuki (源宗于)	Japanese poet{{sfn\|Frédéric\|2002\|p=364}}	{{sort\|939\|Died 939}}{{sfn\|Cranston\|2006\|p=1144}}
Minamoto no Saneakira (源信明)	Japanese poet	916–970{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P26mAAAAIAAJ&q=Minamoto+Saneakira&pg=PA68\|page=68\|title=Fujiwara Teika's Superior Poems of Our Time\|others=Trans. Brower, Robert H.; Miner, Earl\|last=Fujiwara Teika\|publisher=Stanford University Press\|location=Palo Alto\|date=1 June 1967\|access-date=12 October 2012\|isbn=0804701717}}
Minamoto no Shigeyuki (源重之)	Japanese poet	{{sort\|1000\|Died c. 1000}}{{sfn\|Cranston\|2006\|p=1046}}
Minamoto no Shitagō (源順)	Japanese poet: one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber and the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals{{sfn\|Frédéric\|2002\|p=818}}	911–983{{sfn\|Frédéric\|2002\|p=818}}
{{sort\|Misra, Vācaspati\|Vācaspati Miśra}}	Indian polymath	900–980{{cite journal\|url=http://www.blackwellreference.com/public/tocnode?id=g9780631229674_chunk_g9780631229674177\|title=172. Vācaspati Miśra\|year=2001\|access-date=7 September 2012\|journal=Blackwell Reference Online\|first=Karl H.\|last=Potter\|doi=10.1111/b.9780631229674.2001.00177.x}}
Muhammad bin Hani al Andalusi al Azdi	Poet born in Seville{{sfn\|Daftary\|2007\|p=159}}	{{sort\|973\|Died 973}}{{sfn\|Daftary\|2007\|p=161}}
Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari	Writer on theology, literature and history, born in Tabriz	839–923{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w6flsOIT5PsC&q=Muhammad+ibn+Jarir+al-Tabari&pg=PA62\|title=Fifty Key Figures in Islam\|page=62\|first=Roy\|last=Jackson\|publisher=Taylor & Francis\|location=Abingdon, Oxon\|date=8 August 2006\|access-date=6 September 2012\|isbn=0415354676}}
{{sort\|Muqqadasi\|Al-Muqaddasi}}	Arabian traveller and author of a Description of the Lands of Islam, an Arabic geography{{cite EB1911 \|wstitle=Muḳaddasi \|volume=18 \|page=958}}	{{sort\|946\|c. 946–7 – 1000}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H-k9oc9xsuAC&q=Al-Muqaddasi&pg=PA285\|title=Geography\|encyclopedia=Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia\|date=31 October 2005\|access-date=19 August 2012\|publisher=Routledge\|location=London\|page=286\|volume=1\|editor-first=Josef W.\|editor-last=Meri\|author-link=Josef W. Meri\|isbn=0415966906}}
{{sort\|Mutazz, Abdullah ibn\|Abdullah ibn al-Mu'tazz}}	Writer and, for one day, caliph of the Abbasid dynasty	{{sort\|908\|Died 908}}{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mqNMszs0licC&q=Abdullah+ibn+al-Mu%27tazz&pg=PA86\|page=86\|title=On Fiction and Adab in Medieval Arabic Literature\|editor-first=Philip F.\|editor-last=Kennedy\|chapter=Probability, Plausibility and "Spiritual Communication" in Classical Arabic Biography\|first=Michael\|last=Cooperson\|author-link=Michael Cooperson\|publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag\|location=Wiesbaden\|year=2005\|access-date=17 October 2012\|isbn=3447051825\|series=Studies in Arabic Language and Literature\|volume=6}}
Nagavarma I	Author of the Chandōmbudhi, the first treatise on Kannada metrics	{{sort\|960\|Late 10th century}}{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0UCh7r2TjQIC&q=nagavarma&pg=PA368\|pages=368–9\|title=The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India\|first=Sheldon\|last=Pollock\|author-link=Sheldon Pollock\|publisher=University of California Press\|location=Berkeley, California\|date=23 May 2006\|access-date=23 September 2012\|isbn=0520245008}}
Nakatsukasa (中務)	One of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals, daughter of Lady Ise	{{sort\|912\|c. 912 – after 989}}
{{sort\|Nayrizi\|Al-Nayrizi}}	Astronomer and meteorologist probably from Neyriz	{{sort\|865\|c. 865 – c. 922}}{{cite web\|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Nayrizi.html\|title=Abu'l Abbas al-Fadl ibn Hatim Al-Nayrizi\|date=November 1999\|access-date=19 August 2012\|work=MacTutor History of Mathematics archive\|publisher=University of St Andrews\|first1=J. J.\|last1=O'Connor\|first2=E. F.\|last2=Robertson\|author-link2=Edmund F. Robertson\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927220758/http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Nayrizi.html\|archive-date=27 September 2007}}
{{sort\|Nissim, Jacob ben\|Jacob ben Nissim}}	Philosopher, lived in Kairouan	{{sort\|900\|10th century}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8448-jacob-ben-nissim-ibn-shahin\|title=Jacob Ben Nissim Ibn Shahin\|year=1906\|access-date=7 September 2012\|encyclopedia=Jewish Encyclopedia}}
{{sort\|Noin\|Nōin}} (能因)	Japanese poet	988–1050?{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fQsMvnS79ZYC&q=N%C5%8Din&pg=PA23\|page=23\|title=Traditions of East Asian Travel\|editor-first=Joshua A.\|editor-last=Fogel\|chapter=Travel as Poetic Practice in Medieval and Early Modern Japan\|first=Steven D.\|last=Carter\|publisher=Berghahn Books\|location=New York\|date=15 January 2006\|access-date=13 October 2012\|isbn=184545152X}}
Notker Labeo	German theologian, philologist, mathematician, astronomer, connoisseur of music, and poet	{{sort\|950\|c. 950 – 1022}}{{cite Catholic Encyclopedia\|wstitle=Notker\|volume=11\|first=Franz\|last=Kampers\|first2=Klemens\|last2=Löffler}}
Odo of Cluny	Author of a biography of Gerald of Aurillac, a series of moral essays, some sermons, an epic poem and 12 choral antiphons	878/9–942{{cite Catholic Encyclopedia\|wstitle=St. Odo\|volume=11\|first=Klemens\|last=Löffler}}
{{sort\|Oengus mac Oengusa\|Óengus mac Óengusa}}	Described in the Annals of the Four Masters as the "chief poet of Ireland"	{{sort\|930\|Died 930}}{{sfn\|Anonymous\|1856\|p=625–7}}
{{sort\|Ōnakatomi no Yorimoto\|Ōnakatomi no Yorimoto}} (大中臣頼基)	Japanese poet, one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals	{{sort\|958\|Died 958}}{{sfn\|Frédéric\|2002\|p=818}}
{{sort\|Onakatomi no Yoshinobu\|Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu}} (大中臣能宣)	Japanese poet, one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber	922–991{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cbYhwKSqleQC&q=%C5%8Cnakatomi+no+Yoshinobu&pg=PA235\|page=235\|title=Murmured Conversations: A Treatise on Poetry and Buddhism by the Poet-Monk Shinkei\|first=Esperanza\|last=Ramirez-Christensen\|publisher=Stanford University Press\|location=Palo Alto\|date=16 April 2008\|access-date=26 September 2012\|isbn=978-0804748636}}
Ono no Komachi (小野小町)	Japanese poet	834–900{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uNhpX4fWnbIC&q=Ono+no+Komachi+900&pg=PA101\|page=101\|title=Netsuke: Masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art\|first=Barbra Teri\|last=Okada\|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art\|location=New York\|year=1982\|access-date=17 October 2012\|isbn=0870992732}}
{{sort\|Oshikōchi no Mitsune\|Ōshikōchi no Mitsune}} (凡河内躬恒)	Japanese waka poet	{{sort\|898\|{{floruit}} 898–922}}{{sfn\|Miner et al.\|1988\|p=215}}
{{sort\|Pampa, Adikavi\|Adikavi Pampa}}	Kannada-language poet	902–945{{cite journal\|url=http://pptfun.com/Jaindarpan/Jainbook/Ebooks_English/Jain_Journal_Jainlogy.pdf\|page=75\|journal=Jain Journal\|date=October 2003\|access-date=13 September 2012\|volume=XXXVIII\|issue=2\|issn=0021-4043\|title=Poet Pampa, Jinavallabhaand Andhra: A Retrospection\|first=Kamala\|last=Hampana\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303222415/http://pptfun.com/Jaindarpan/Jainbook/Ebooks_English/Jain_Journal_Jainlogy.pdf\|archive-date=3 March 2016}}
{{sort\|Quhi, Abu Sahl\|Abū Sahl al-Qūhī}}	Astronomer and mathematician from Tabaristan	{{sort\|940\|c. 940 – c. 1000}}{{cite web\|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Quhi.html\|title=Abu Sahl Waijan ibn Rustam al-Quhi\|date=November 1999\|access-date=21 August 2012\|work=MacTutor History of Mathematics archive\|publisher=University of St Andrews\|first1=J. J.\|last1=O'Connor\|first2=E. F.\|last2=Robertson\|author-link2=Edmund F. Robertson}}
Qusta ibn Luqa	Scholar of Greek Christian origin whose work included astronomy, mathematics, medicine and philosophy	{{sort\|820\|Probably c. 820 – probably c. 912–913}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Qusta_ibn_Luqa_al-Balabakki_BEA.htm\|title=Qusṭā ibn Lūqā al‐Baʿlabakkī\|encyclopedia=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers\|year=2007\|access-date=9 September 2012\|publisher=Springer Science+Business Media\|location=New York\|editor-first=Thomas\|editor-last=Hockey\|first=Elaheh\|last=Kheirandish\|pages=948–949\|doi=10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_1138\|isbn=978-0-387-31022-0}}
Ratherius	Author of works including a criticism of the social classes of his time and two defences of his right to the Diocese of Liège	{{sort\|887\|c. 887 – 974}}{{cite Catholic Encyclopedia\|wstitle=Ratherius of Verona\|first=Johann Peter\|last=Kirsch\|volume=12}}
{{sort\|Razi, Muhammad ibn Zakariya al\|Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi}}	Physician, scientist, philosopher and author of alchemy and logic; born in Rey, Iran	865–925{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/hawi-medical-book\|title=Ḥāwi, Al-\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica\|first=Lutz\|last=Richter-Bernburg\|date=15 December 2003\|access-date=9 September 2012\|volume=XIII\|pages=64–67}}
{{sort\|Regino of Prum\|Regino of Prüm}}	Chronicler and author of works on ecclesiastical discipline and liturgical singing, born in Altrip	{{sort\|915\|Died 915}}{{cite CE1913\|wstitle= Regino of Prüm \|volume= 12 \|last= Kirsch \|first= Johann Peter \|author-link= Johann Peter Kirsch \|short=1}}
Richerus	Chronicler from Reims	{{sort\|998\|Died after 998}}{{cite EB1911 \|wstitle=Richerus \|volume=22 \|page=305}}
{{sort\|Rustah, Ahmad ibn\|Ahmad ibn Rustah}}	Persian author of a geographical compendium	{{sort\|903\|Died after 903}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ebn-rosta\|title=Ebn Rosta, Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad\|date=15 December 1997\|access-date=19 August 2012\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica\|volume=VIII\|pages=49–50\|first=C. Edmund\|last=Bosworth\|author-link=Clifford Edmund Bosworth}}
{{sort\|Saghani\|Al-Saghani}}	Mathematician and astronomer who flourished in Turkmenistan	{{sort\|990\|Died 990}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t-BF1CHkc50C&q=al-saghani&pg=PA1004\|title=Ṣāghānī: Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣāghānī [al-Ṣāghānī] al-Asṭurlābī\|encyclopedia=Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers\|first=Roser\|last=Puig\|editor1-first=Virginia\|editor1-last=Trimble\|editor1-link=Virginia Louise Trimble\|editor2-first=Thomas\|editor2-last=Williams\|editor3-first=Katherine\|editor3-last=Bracher\|editor4-first=Richard\|editor4-last=Jarrell\|editor5-first=Jordan D.\|editor5-last=Marché\|editor6-first=F. Jamil\|editor6-last=Ragep\|date=20 November 2007\|access-date=21 August 2012\|publisher=Springer Science+Business Media\|location=New York\|page=1004\|isbn=978-0387310220}}
{{sort\|Sahl, Ibn\|Ibn Sahl}}	Geometer	{{sort\|960\|{{floruit}} late 10th century}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Ibn_Sahl_BEA.htm\|title=Ibn Sahl: Abū Saʿd al‐ʿAlā{{hamza}} ibn Sahl\|encyclopedia=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers\|year=2007\|access-date=8 September 2012\|publisher=Springer Science+Business Media\|location=New York\|editor-first=Thomas\|editor-last=Hockey\|first=Len\|last=Berggren\|page=567\|doi=10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_689}}
Sakanoue no Mochiki	Japanese poet, one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber	{{sort\|950\|{{floruit}} c. 950}}
{{sort\|Sei Shonagon\|Sei Shōnagon}} (清少納言)	Japanese diarist and poet	{{sort\|966\|c. 966 – c. 1025}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/532788/Sei-Shonagon\|title=Sei Shōnagon\|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica\|year=2012\|access-date=13 October 2012}}
{{sort\|Sijistani, Abu Sulayman\|Abu Sulayman Sijistani}}	Philosopher from Sijistan	{{sort\|932\|c. 932 – c. 1000}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ip/rep/H040\|title=al-Sijistani, Abu Sulayman Muhammad (c.932-c.1000)\|encyclopedia=Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy\|year=1998\|access-date=7 September 2012\|first=George N.\|last=Atiyeh\|author-link=George N. Atiyeh}}
{{sort\|Sijistani, Abu Yaqub\|Abu Yaqub al-Sijistani}}	Islamic philosopher	{{sort\|971\|{{floruit}} 971}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.iep.utm.edu/sijistan/\|title=Abu Ya'qub al-Sijistani (fl. 971)\|encyclopedia=Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy\|date=14 October 2004\|access-date=7 September 2012\|first=Paul E.\|last=Walker}}
Sijzi	Geometer, astrologer and astronomer, born in Sijistan	{{sort\|945\|c. 945 – c. 1020}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Sijzi_BEA.htm\|title=Sijzī: Abū Saʿīd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al‐Jalīl al‐Sijzī\|encyclopedia=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers\|year=2007\|access-date=8 September 2012\|publisher=Springer Science+Business Media\|location=New York\|editor-first=Thomas\|editor-last=Hockey\|first=Glen\|last=Van Brummelen\|author-link=Glen Van Brummelen\|page=1059\|doi=10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_1279}}
{{sort\|Sinan, Ibrahim\|Ibrahim ibn Sinan}}	Geometer from Baghdad	908–946{{cite web\|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ibrahim.html\|title=Ibrahim ibn Sinan ibn Thabit ibn Qurra\|date=November 1999\|access-date=21 August 2012\|work=MacTutor History of Mathematics archive\|publisher=University of St Andrews\|first1=J. J.\|last1=O'Connor\|first2=E. F.\|last2=Robertson\|author-link2=Edmund F. Robertson}}
{{sort\|Sistani, Farrukhi\|Farrukhi Sistani}}	Court poet of Mahmud of Ghazni	{{sort\|900\|10th–11th centuries}}{{cite encyclopedia\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wWDnTWrz4O8C&q=Farrukhi+Sistani&pg=PA648\|page=648\|chapter=Somanatha Temple\|first=Raman N.\|last=Seylon\|encyclopedia=India Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic\|volume=1\|editor1-first=Arnold P.\|editor1-last=Kaminsky\|editor2-first=Roger D.\|editor2-last=Long\|publisher=ABC-CLIO\|location=Santa Barbara, California\|date=30 September 2011\|access-date=13 September 2012\|isbn=978-0313374623}}
Somadeva Suri	South Indian Jain monk and author of the Upāsakādyayana, a central text of Digambara śrāvakācāra literature	{{sort\|900\|10th century}}{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LW8czr_HzzwC&q=Somadeva+Suri&pg=PA19\|title=The Assembly of Listeners: Jains in Society\|chapter=Somadeva Suri and the question of Jain identity\|page=19\|first=Mukund\|last=Lath\|editor1-first=Michael\|editor1-last=Carrithers\|editor2-first=Caroline\|editor2-last=Humphrey\|editor2-link=Caroline Humphrey\|publisher=Cambridge University Press\|location=Cambridge\|date=4 April 1991\|access-date=11 September 2012\|isbn=0521365058}}
Sosei (素性)	One of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals	859–923{{sfn\|Frédéric\|2002\|p=818}}
{{sort\|Sufi, Abd al-Rahman\|Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi}}	Astronomer in Iran	903–986{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Sufi_BEA.htm\|title=Ṣūfī: Abū al‐Ḥusayn ʿAbd al‐Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar al‐Ṣūfī\|encyclopedia=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers\|year=2007\|access-date=21 August 2012\|publisher=Springer Science+Business Media\|location=New York\|editor-first=Thomas\|editor-last=Hockey\|page=1110\|doi=10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_1346\|first=Paul\|last=Kunitzsch\|display-editors=etal}}
Sugawara no Michizane (菅原道真/菅原道眞)	Japanese statesman, historian and poet	845–903{{sfn\|Frédéric\|2002\|p=908}}
Symeon the Studite	"Spiritual father" of Symeon the New Theologian{{sfn\|Alfeyev\|2000\|p=19}} and author of the "Ascetical Discourse", a narrative intended for monks{{sfn\|Alfeyev\|2000\|p=102}}	917 or 924{{sfn\|Alfeyev\|2000\|p=20}} – c. 986–7{{sfn\|Alfeyev\|2000\|p=27}}
Ukhtanes of Sebastia	Chronicler of the history of Armenia	{{sort\|935\|c. 935 – 1000}}{{sfn\|Hacikyan et al.\|2002\|p=250}}
{{sort\|Uqlidisi, Abu'l-Hasan\|Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi}}	Mathematician, possibly from Damascus	{{sort\|920\|c. 920 – c. 980}}{{cite web\|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Uqlidisi.html\|title=Abu'l Hasan Ahmad ibn Ibrahim Al-Uqlidisi\|date=November 1999\|access-date=8 September 2012\|work=MacTutor History of Mathematics archive\|publisher=University of St Andrews\|first1=J. J.\|last1=O'Connor\|first2=E. F.\|last2=Robertson\|author-link2=Edmund F. Robertson}}
{{sort\|Vatesvara\|Vaṭeśvara}}	Indian mathematician	{{sort\|802\|Born 802 or 880}}{{cite book\|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=DHvThPNp9yMC&q=Vate%C5%9Bvara&pg=PA326 326]\|title=Mathematics in India\|title-link=Mathematics in India (book)\|first=Kim\|last=Plofker\|author-link=Kim Plofker\|year=2009\|publisher=Princeton University Press\|location=Princeton, New Jersey\|isbn=978-0691120676}}
Wang Yucheng (王禹偁)	Chinese Song dynasty poet and official	954–1001
Widukind of Corvey	Saxon historian	{{sort\|1004\|Died c. 1004}}{{cite EB1911 \|last=Holland \|first=Arthur William \|wstitle=Widukind (historian) \|display=Widukind \|volume=28 \|page=620–621}}
Xue Juzheng (薛居正)	Author of the Old History of the Five Dynasties, an account of China's Five Dynasties	912–981
{{sort\|Yunus\|Ibn Yunus}}	Egyptian astronomer and astrologer	950–1009{{cite web\|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Yunus.html\|title=Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Yunus\|date=November 1999\|access-date=21 August 2012\|work=MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive\|publisher=University of St Andrews\|first1=J. J.\|last1=O'Connor\|first2=E. F.\|last2=Robertson\|author-link2=Edmund F. Robertson}}
{{sort\|Yusuf, Ahmad ibn\|Ahmad ibn Yusuf}}	Egyptian mathematician	{{sort\|900\|{{floruit}} c. 900–905, died 912/913}}{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830900059.html\|title=Aḥmad Ibn Yūsuf\|encyclopedia=Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography\|year=2008\|access-date=8 September 2012\|first=Dorothy V.\|last=Schrader}}
{{sort\|Zahrawi, Abu al-Qasim\|Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi}}	Physician and author of Al-Tasrif, from Al-Andalus	936–1013{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=plS7dJ-e5KMC&q=Abu+al-Qasim+al-Zahrawi&pg=PA10\|page=10\|title=Albucasis (Abu Al-Qasim Al-Zahrawi): Renowned Muslim Surgeon of the Tenth Century\|date=8 February 2006\|access-date=8 September 2012\|first=Fred\|last=Ramen\|publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group\|location=New York\|isbn=1404205101}}

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