Abu Abdullah Jafar ibn Mohammad ibn Hakim ibn Abdurrahman ibn Adam Rudaki Samarghandi, (entitledآدم الشعرا Ādam ul-Shoara or Adam of Poets) also written as Rudagi or Rudhagi, (858 - ca. 941) was a Persian poet, and is regarded as the first great literary genius of the Modern Persian, who composed poems in the Perso-Arabic alphabet or "New Persian" script. Rudaki is considered a founder of Tajik-Persian classical literature. He was born… (More on Rudaki)