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	Rudaki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Rudaki was born blind in a village near Samarqand in the Ninth Century A.D. Rudaki translated "Kelileh-o-Demneh" from Arabic into Persian.
		Rudaki was not only a graceful poet but also a sweet singer who played the harp and lute skillfully and was much favored by the Samanid Amir Nasr ibne Ahmad.
		Rudaki, who was born blind, was a ballad singer poet, and a minstrel whose tasnifs, or topical ballads, have mostly been used in composing songs and can be heard today at Persian feasts.
	www.irib.ir /Occasions/Rudaki/Rudaki-en.htm (468 words)

	Rudaki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In spite of various predecessors, he well deserves the title of father of Persian literature, the Adam or Sultan of poets, since he was the first who impressed upon every form of epic, lyric and didactic poetry its peculiar stamp and its individual character.
		There is a complete edition of all the extant poems of Rudaki, in Persian text and metrical German translation, together with a biographical account, based on forty-six Persian manuscripts, in Dr. H.
		Rudaki, Abu Abd Allah, a biography by Professor Iraj Bashri, University of Minnesota.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rudaki (575 words)

	Rudaki Summary
		Rudaki was famed for his mastery of the qasida (an elegaic ode of between 60 and 100 lines) and the ghazal (a shorter lyrical love poem).
		In spite of various predecessors, he well deserves the title of father of Persian literature, the Adam or the Sultan of poets, since he was the first who impressed upon every form of epic, lyric and didactic poetry its peculiar stamp and its individual character.
		Rudaki, Abu Abd Allah, a biography by Professor Iraj Bashri, University of Minnesota.
	www.bookrags.com /Rudaki (774 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The greatest minds of the time converged in Bukhara, the focal point of the sciences, literary developments, and artistic innovations, where theoretical and practical aspects of the fine arts, including music, were studied and enhanced.
		This method of research was the hallmark of the contributors of the Rudaki era.
		Another important aspect of the Rudaki era is the devotion of the researchers to the revival of the traditions of the ancients.
	www.iles.umn.edu /faculty/bashiri/Borbad/Rajabzod.html (2361 words)

	tajikistan.neweurasia.net » Tajikistan to celebrate the 1150th anniversary of Rudaki
		Abdullah Jafar Ibn Mohammad Rudaki (Tajik Абӯабдуллоҳ Ҷафар Ибн Муҳаммад Рӯдакӣ, Persian ابوعبدالله جعفربن محمدبن حکیمبن عبدالرحمنبن آدم رودکی), also written as Rudagi or Rudhagi, (859-c.941) was a Persian (Tājīk) poet, and the first great literary genius of modern Persian language, who composed poems in the “New Persian”; Perso-Arabic alphabet script.
		Rudaki deserves to be put on the same level as Rumi and Goethe.
		Yes, Rudaki was blinded as a punishment (by rubbing small metal particled in his eyes) because he criticized the ruler who he worked for in his writings.
	tajikistan.neweurasia.net /2007/06/01/tajikistan-to-celebrate-the-1150th-anniversary-of-rudaki (863 words)

	Iran-North Korea Friendship Exhibition Opens In Tehran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The exhibition was held on the occasion of 15th anniversary of Iran and North Korea friendship pact and was opened in the presence of the Korean ambassador and a number of cultural figures from the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance and Rudaki Foundation.
		In this ceremony, the ambassador of North Korea referring to the long background of friendship between the countries recalled the trip of the Leader of Islamic Republic in 1989 to his country and called for the expansion of cultural relations between the two countries.
		The cultural exhibition was cosponsored by Rudaki Foundation, the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization and North Korea Embassy.
	www.irannewswatch.com /news/publish/printer_849.shtml (160 words)

	rudakihallconcert
		I shall never forget that evening in November 75 when I was a guest at the Rudaki Opera house to enjoy Frank Sinatra's live concert.
		My father who owned the building next to the Opera house (rented by Rudaki hall for the use of the Performers) had an invitation which he passed on to me.
		Rudaki Hall was a modern opera house and concert hall equipped with the very latest theatrical and electrical devices.
	www.spyweb.us /scene2b.html (491 words)

	An-Nasafi and Abu Yaqub as-Sijistani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Some historians sought to explain the term Rudaki by saying that he was so called because he could play on rud (harp), which is an erroneous view.
		The poet himself adopted his pen-name, Rudaki because he hailed from a village in the district of Rudak.
		The Abbasids took notice of the rapid conversion of the Ismailis in Khorasan, notably Nasr bin Ahmad, and insinuated Nuh bin Nasr (331-343/943-954), the son of Nasr bin Ahmad; against his father and the Ismailis.
	www.ismaili.net /histoire/history05/history524.html (639 words)

	Situation Reports: Tajikistan: Flash Floods - May 2005, Tajikistan: Flash floods Information Bulletin No. 1
		In the village of Kuktosh in Rudaki district over 200 homes and buildings were destroyed.
		In the Jamoats of Lohur and Guliston in Rudaki district (33 km south of Dushanbe), 55 households (446 people) are affected in the villages Lohur, Tubek, Tailanobod and Jangiobod.
		Situation assessment is continuing in Guliston Jamoat of Rudaki district which has become the most affected Jamoat in the disaster area.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/EVOD-6CHE3G?OpenDocument (627 words)

	MPs fed up with EU trickery
		Rudaki told the Mehr News Agency that the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors resolution was the result of the policies of the United States that were imposed on both the IAEA and the European Union.
		Rudaki noted that Iran could reduce its oil sales to pressure the United States and the EU, adding that neither the Iranian nation nor the country’s officials would ever forgo their inalienable right to access nuclear technology meant for peaceful purposes, even if Iran’s nuclear dossier were referred to the United Nations Security Council.
		Meanwhile, MP Rashid Jafari Jalali of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee said on Saturday that the concerns of the international community affect the price of oil, and the issue of fossil fuel energy is one of the main concerns of Europe and the Western world.
	www.mehrnews.com /en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=217918 (1033 words)

	RUDAKI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Rudaki was a Persian poet, who was the first important poet to compose poems in the "New Persian" language, written in the Arabic alphabet.
		He was the court poet to the Samanid ruler Nasr II in Bukhara, but he fell out of favour and ended his life in poverty.
		It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
	www.yotor.org /wiki/en/ru/Rudaki.htm (67 words)

	Tajik-land
		It gave the world many outstanding scientists and poets: Al-Khwarazmi, the 9th century mathematican and astronomer, Ibn-Sina, the physician and enlightener of the 10-th11th centuries, known in West as Avecenna; Rudaki, court poet in Bukhara in the time of the Samanids.
		The genius poet, Rudaki, the father of Persian/Tajik litterature, has improved the language using it for the first time in secular poetry, laying down foundations of a number of literary genres.
		Rudaki stars in the national pantheons of the Persian-speaking world: Afghanistan, Iran, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
	www.geocities.com /tajikland (859 words)

	Rudaki -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		A talented singer and instrumentalist, Rudaki served as a court poet to the Samanid ruler Nasr II (914–943) in Bukhara until he fell out of favour in 937.
		Approximately 100,000 couplets are attributed to Rudaki, but of that enormous output, fewer than 1,000 have survived, and these are scattered among many anthologies and biographical works.
		His poems are written in a simple style, characterized by optimism and charm and, toward the end of his life, by a touching melancholy.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9064342 (433 words)

	iranian.com: Monir Vakili
		Monir studied voice and the conservatoire National de Paris and continued her training in opera directing at the New England Conservatory of Music in the U.S. A pioneer in the true sense, Monir Started the very first opera company in Iran.
		She gave memorable performances as Madam Butterfly, Mimi in La Bohem, Violetta in La Traviata, Liu in Turandot, and many others at the Rudaki Hall where she strived to bring the level of art history in Iran up to international standards.
		In 1951 Monir placed 1st at the Berlin Youth Festival (vocal category) and in 1975 she was the recipient of the prestigious Forough Farrokhzad Award.
	www.iranian.com /Music/Vakili/index.html (240 words)

	Varorud.org - Information & Analitics Agency
		The Day of the founder of the Tajik classic literature Abu Abdullo Rudaki was sweepingly celebrated in the poet's native land.
		This year it was decided to transfer the basic events to the poet's native land; a great number of connoisseurs and admirers of the great master's creation were invited.
		Namely Rudaki is a mediator in the development of cultural relations between Persian-speaking countries and the tradition of Rudaki's Day celebration should be continued.
	www.varorud.org /english/herald/pulse240903.html (1738 words)

	Masood Mortazavi's Weblog
		One thousand years ago, Abu 'abdollah Ja'far Ebn Mohammad Rudaki (859 to 940/41 A.D.) signalled the founding of "modern" Persian with his poems—some of the first Persian poems ever written in the Arabic script.
		One of Rudaki's most famous poems put into song can be found at tehran.stanford.edu.
		This poem is written in praise of the land of Amu-darya and Sier-darya, Rudaki's birth place.
	blogs.sun.com /roller/page/MortazaviBlog/20050515?catname=/Art (1097 words)

	FIRST IRANIANS (3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Rudaki, generally regarded as the first great Persian poet or the Father of Persian Poetry, wrote a very large quantity of verses, of which little has been survived.
		But some evidences indicate she lived during the same period that Rudaki, the Father of Persian Poetry, was a court poet to the Samanid ruler Nassr II (914-943 AD).
		She composed her poems in Farsi and she was a renounced poetess who was killed by her fundamental brother for proclaiming her love for a man in her poetry.
	www.expage.com /fi3 (724 words)

	Hussein's Eclectic Extravaganza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Apparently my Rudaki world was exactly the impression the Soviets had hoped to create.
		We got to the end of the Rudaki, across from the Presidential Palace, and saw the statue of Ismoil Somoni.
		The main street is Rudaki, a famous Central Asian poet who wrote the quintessential poem praising the Oxus River, the main river of Tajikistan.
	homepage.mac.com /hrashid/iblog/B236914167 (5111 words)

	Tajik
		RUDAKI, Tajikistan - Fifty people have contracted typhoid in western Tajikistan and more than 70 others have been hospitalized with suspected cases of the infectious disease, officials said Thursday.
		RUDAKI, Tajikistan (AP) - Fifty people have contracted typhoid in western Tajikistan and more than 70 others have been hospitalized with suspected cases of the infectious disease, officials...
		RUDAKI, Tajikistan Aug. 12, 2004 — Fifty people have contracted typhoid in western Tajikistan and more than 70 others have been hospitalized with suspected cases of the infectious disease, officials said...
	archive.wn.com /2004/08/13/1400/tajik (673 words)

	asia
		The opera and ballet theatre on Prospect Rudaki is still operating, albeit with a reduced programme of matinees.
		There is a souvenir shop on the corner of Prospect Rudaki and ulitsa Ismail Somoni, under an art gallery which exhibits and sells the work of local artists.
		The main points of interest all lie on, or close to, Prospect Rudaki which runs from the railway station in the south to the bus station in the north.
	www.bunty.cwc.net /tajikistan.htm (5113 words)

	Persian literature -> Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Literature on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		As Islam became the dominant theme, Arabic became the literary language, until the emergence of local dynasties in the 10th cent.
		To Rudaki are attributed a lost mathnawi (epic poem with rhyming couplets) version of the fables of the kalila wa dimna as well as a few qasidahs (panegyrics).
		Other major figures of this period are Abu Shukur of Balkh, who is credited with the introduction of rubaiyyat, Persian poetic quatrains; Daqiqi, a Samanid court poet and a precursor of Firdawsi; and Baba Tahir Uryan, author of rubaiyyat expressive of pain.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/perslit_pre-islamicandearlyislamicliterature.asp (397 words)

	worldinformation.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		EU Co-ordinating Unit, c/o Ministry of External Economic Relations, Prospekt Rudaki 42, Dushanbe (tel: 222-403, 227-077; fax: 228-120).
		Ministry of Agriculture, 46 Rudaki Ave, Dushanbe 734051 (tel: 276-249).
		Ministry of Economy and External Economic Affairs, 42 Rudaki Ave, 734025 Dushanbe (tel: 232-944).
	www.worldinformation.com /woi/start.asp?content=world&continent=Asia&country=992&bodytext=directory (368 words)

	Where we live (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Library named after Firdousi - the great poet and classic of Tajik-Persian poetry is upwards of Rudaki avenue.
		The building was built in Tajik national style in combination with elements of modern architecture.
		There is a nice building with national flag in the center of our city.
	www.schoolsonline.org /dushanbe/en/where_we_live.htm (233 words)

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