Abu Abdollah Jafar ibn Mohammad Rudaki (, , entitledآدم الشعرا Ādam ul-Shoara or Adam of Poets), also written as Rudagi (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 “New Persian” alphabet. Rudaki is considered as a founder of Persian classical literature. His poetry contains many of the oldest genres of Persian poetry including the quatrain. Only a small percentage of his extensive poetry has survived.
