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the marabout Abdallah Ibn Yasin, called by the chief of the Djoddala, creates a monastery (ribat) in an island of the Senegal and spreads a strict Islam, at origin of the Almoravides (of Al Morabethin : those of the ribat). In little time, many Berbères unites with them. ;
When Abdallah Ibn Yasin feels rather powerful, it proclaims the Holy war and rejoins with its cause all the Sanhadja. The power of Almoravides quickly becomes a threat for the kingdom of the Ghana, whose trade route towards north is cut, as for the the Maghreb, devastated and weakened by the invasion hilalienne in the east, the quarrels religious and the wars of succession in the center and the west;
the Zirides of Ifriqiya, under the influence of the doctors malikites of Kairouan, reject the Chiisme and restore the Sunnisme. It definitively break with the Fatimides in 1051.

the Saljûqide Ibrahim ibn Inal share with the attack of minor Asia (taken Erzurum in Arménie).

the Lorraine is set up in duchy for the house of the counts of Metz (fine in 1737);
July 17th - August 9th: Damask Pontificate of II (Poppon):

Bavarian Poppon, bishop of Brixen, indicated as pope by the emperor Henri III must drive out Benoît IX by the force. He dies shortly after in Palestrina.

Henri I {{er}} of France sends an embassy to Kiev to ask for the hand of Anne, girl of Iaroslav Wise the;
the Petchenègues pass the the Danube massively. Incompetent to eliminate them, the Byzantine empire must practice his traditional policy of installation.

Alexis I {{er}} Comnène, Byzantine Emperor;
June 18th: Omar Khayyam, Philosopher, Mathematician and Persian Astronomer, with Nichapour (Iran) († 1131).

December 13rd: Al Biruni, erudite Persan encyclopedist born in 973, (Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer, Historian, etc), writing, inter alia, in Arabic, with Ghazni (Afghanistan) (° September 15th 973 close to Khiva, in Ouzbékistan);
pi Cheng.

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