1004A.D. (during Jingde years) 

          The earliest popular text recording key acts and

          sayings of Chinese Chan Buddhist masters.

          Include record of ~1,700 people (beginning with

          Buddha), organized as "geneology" based

          on teacher-student relationships. Historiographic

          structure significantly influenced later writing of

          neo-Confucian intellectual history. (Selected

          because this text presents a much better picture

          of origination of Chan Buddhism than the  

          Platform Sutra of Huineng.) 

          ~1010A.D. 

          Inaugurating text of new Persian literature, which will

          prove influential from Ottoman to Mughal empires. Text is

          an epic of history of Iranian lands prior to Islamic

          conquest.

          Composed between 1014-1020A.D. 

          Lead philosopher (and medical doctor) in Islamic

          civilization, influential both in East and West Islamic

          lands, and also considered a master by medieval

          Christian scholastic theologian-philosophers. Al-Shifa is

          Ibn Sina's best known philosophical work.

Comprehensive Mirror

to Aid in Government  

          1084A.D. 

          Chronicle of Chinese history from 403B.C. to

          959A.D. with many subsequent attempts by

          later generations to comment,  extend,

          and paraphrase.  

Revival of Religious

Sciences 

          1097A.D. 

          al-Ghazali is a Sunni Islamic polymath

          (jurist, theologian, philosopher and Sufi) later

          called "Proof of Islam" and canonized in the

          education system dominated by madrasahs.  

          Revival is his major work that covers most

          fields of Islamic sciences.

          Multiple compilations in later generations 

          Su Shi is probably the most ingenious of all literary

          authors in Chinese history. He was accomplished in

          prose (one of the eight Tang-Song masters, together

          with his father and younger brother), shi poetry

          (usually considered top two poet in Song dynasty

          together with his younger friend-student Huang

          Tingjian), ci poetry (founder of a new style), fu

          (versified prose), caligraphy, painting, and literature/art

          criticism. (Besides, he was a talented governor well-

          learned in the classics and history.) Most popular

          traditional version of his works comes in

          115 scrolls,which (unfortunately) excludes his ci

          poetry.