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Rudaki
Rudaki (859-c.941) was a Persian poet, who was the first important poet to compose poems in the "New Persian" language, written in the Perso-Arabic alphabet. He was the court poet to the Samanid ruler Nasr II (914-943) in Bukhara, but he fell out of favour and ended his life in poverty.
External links
- Rudaki, Abu Abd Allah, a biography by Professor Iraj Bashri, University of Minnesota. Includes translations of "Lament in Old Age", "Mother of Wine", and "Ju-yi Muliyan."
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