Rabia bint Ka'b al-Quzdari is regarded as the first woman to compose poetry in Persian and was a contemporary of Rudaki (d. 940/41). IMPORTANT: she is SEMI-LEGENDARY, later mythologized by poets such as Attar and Jami; the famous tale has her writing her last verses in her own blood on a prison wall. Her grave in Balkh lies within the 15th-century complex of the Naqshbandi Khwaja Abu Nasr Parsa and is a modest tomb (the grave attribution is a later placemaking tradition). (Sources: Wikipedia 'Rabia Balkhi'; Cambridge/IJMES 'Unearthing Rabi'a's Grave')