Abū 'Abd Allāh Ja'far ibn Muḥammad Rūdakī (Persian: ابوعبدالله جعفر بن محمد رودکی; born c. 859, Rudaki, Khorasan – died 940/941), better known as Rudaki (رودکی), and also known as "Adam of Poets" (آدمالشعرا), 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. Read more on Last.fm