Al-Masudi's The Meadows of Gold
947* · Work
The Baghdadi historian's world history, an encyclopaedia of the caliphate, mentions Shahrazad and the 'Thousand Nights'.
On these timelines: The Islamic Golden Age, Islam, Arts and Thoughts, Major Religions, Master
More from The Islamic Golden Age
- Islamic Golden Age (750)
- The Graeco-Arabic translation movement (750)
- al-Khwarizmi's al-Jabr (820)
- Ibn al-Haytham's Book of Optics (1021)
- Papermaking spreads west (751)
- Al-Khwarizmi's book on Hindu numerals (825)
- Avicenna's Book of Healing (1027)
- Averroes's The Incoherence of the Incoherence (1180)
Around 947
- Reign of Alfred the Great (871)
- Holy Roman Empire (962)
- Song dynasty (960)
- Holy Roman Empire founded (962)
- Christianisation of Kievan Rus' (988)
- Founding of the Capetian dynasty (987)
- Gunpowder developed in China (850)
- Bi Sheng invents movable type (1040)
- William the Conqueror (1028)
- Diamond Sutra printed (868)