Abū 'Abd Allāh Ja'far ibn Muḥammad al-Rūdhakī , better known as Rudaki رودکی), and also known as Adam of Poets , was a Persian poet regarded as the first great literary genius of the Modern Persian language. Rudaki composed poems in the modern Persian alphabet and is considered a founder of classical Persian literature. His poetry contains many of the oldest genres of Persian poetry including the quatrain, however, only a small percentage of his extensive poetry has survived.
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