Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sadriddin Ayni, also Sadriddin Aini, a Tajik intellectual prolifically engaged in poetry, fictional writing, journalism, history and lexicography. He is regarded as Tajikistan''s national poet and one of the most important writers of the country''s history. Ayni was born of peasant stock in the village of Saktara in what was then the Emirate of Bukhara. He became an orphan at 12 and moved to join his older brother in Bukhara, where he attended a madrasa and learned to write in Arabic.