This man composed a 9000-line epic poem about Joseph and Potiphar's wife. Chapter 26 of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire contains a footnote about an early translation of this man's work, which was written by Captain Macan for the king of Oude. After being swindled by the treasurer Hasan Maimandi, this man entrusted a satirical verse to Ayaz in which he compared his first benefactor to a boundless sea.  That benefactor, Mahmoud Ghazni, had originally intended to pay him a dinar for every couplet that he wrote. The epic he authored was a compilation of earlier work by Moses of Chorene and begins with the conflict between Kaiumers and Ahriman. FTP, name this poet who depicted the hero Rustem in his Shah Nameh, or Book of Kings.
This man composed a 9000-line epic poem about Joseph and Potiphar's wife. Chapter 26 of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire contains a footnote about an early translation of this man's work, which was written by Captain Macan for the king of Oude. After being swindled by the treasurer Hasan Maimandi, this man entrusted a satirical verse to Ayaz in which he compared his first benefactor to a boundless sea.  That benefactor, Mahmoud Ghazni, had originally intended to pay him a dinar for every couplet that he wrote. The epic he authored was a compilation of earlier work by Moses of Chorene and begins with the conflict between Kaiumers and Ahriman. FTP, name this poet who depicted the hero Rustem in his Shah Nameh, or Book of Kings.
This man composed a 9000-line epic poem about Joseph and Potiphar's wife.
Firdousi or Ferdowsi or Firdausi or something very similar