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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. 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. As it seems, Rudaki was the first person to combine different roles that were yet distinguishable entitles in the 9th century royal court: musician, poet and declaimer/reciter, and copyist. His poems are written in a simple style, having optimism and charm, but as he gets close to end of his life, a touching melancholy gets developed in his poetry. A sample of his poetry, translated into English Look at the cloud, how it cries like a grieving man Thunder moans like a lover with a broken heart. Now and then the sun peeks from behind the clouds Like a prisoner hiding from the guard. The high frequency of Shu'ubiyya thoughts in Rudaki poems is to such an extent that he can be seen as a comprehensive representative of Shu'ubiyya thoughts among Persian-language poets. He has relied more on those thoughts that the foundations of Shu'ubiyya thoughts were established over, like: racial equality; freedom of Irania
