num_pages: 52
description: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Persian: رباعیات عمر خیام‎) is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and numbering about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048–1131), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A ruba'i is a two-line stanza with two parts (or hemistichs) per line, hence the word rubáiyát (derived from the Arabic language root for "four"), meaning "quatrains".
language: English
title: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
titlecomplete: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
genres: Asia, Iran, Religion, Philosophy, Islam, Poetry, Literature, Classics, Fiction, Spirituality
ratings_count: 21774
places: Persia
publisher: Dodo Pr