1198 Death of Ibn-Rushd (Averroes), leader of the Spanish-Moroccan Aristotelianizing Falsafah; the great commentary on Aristotle

1200 Death of 'Attar, Sufi writer and allegorist

1203 Death of Nizami, poet of romantic masnavi epics (Persian)

1220 Death of 'Ala'-al-din-Muhammad, the Khwarazmshah

1220-1231 First great Mongol raids, enormous destfuction of destruction of cities; political center of much of Eurasia fixed at Karakorum in Mongolia

1229 Death of Yaqut, encyclopedist

1273 Death of Jalaluddin Rumi, author of the Masnavi; Mevleviyyah order organized about his teaching

1274 Death of Nasiruddin Tusi, a faylusuf, astronomer, codifier of Imami Shi'i teachings; served the Assasins and Mongols

1299-1326 Osman amir of "Ottoman" Turks.

1326 Ottomans capture Bursa

1360sOttomans take Adrianople [Edirne] in Europe, make it their capital; traditional date for establishment of Devshirme and Janissaries.