Rudaki

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Abu Abdullah Jafar ibn Muhammad ibn Hakim ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Adam, nicknamed Rudaki (Tajik Persian) and known as the Master of Poets (244-329 AH), was the first famous Persian poet of the Iranian Samanid dynasty in the fourth century AH and the master of poets of this century in Iran. Therefore, he is called the father of Persian poetry.