DUSHANBE, September 21, Asia-Plus — A scientific conference dedicated to the 1150th anniversary of the founder of Tajik-Persian literature Abuabdulloh Rudaki was held at the Academy of Sciences on September 20.
Researchers Tajikistan Afghanistan and Iran took part at the conference organized by Iranian Culture Center in Dushanbe, Tajik Academy of Sciences and the Tajik language Foundation.
A Day of Abuadulloh Rudaki will be marked in Tajikistan tomorrow.
Abuabdulloh Jafar Ibn Mohammad Rudaki (858-941) was a Tajik-Persian poet, and the first great literary genius of modern Tajik-Persian language
, who composed poems in the “New Persian” Persian-Arabic alphabet script. Rudaki is considered a founder of Tajik-Persian classical literature
. He was born in the village of Rudak in the district of Panjakent, Tajikistan, in 858. Most of his biographers assert that he was totally blind
, but the accurate knowledge of colors shown in his poems makes this very doubtful. He was the court poet to the Samanid ruler Nasr II (914-943) in Bukhara, but he eventually fell out of favor and ended his life in poverty.
