num_pages: 95
description: The rubaiyat are a series of poems or 'stanzas' by the famous 12th century Persian atronomer and philosopherThe 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". (Courtesy: Wikipedia)(less)This translation gives a critical commentary on Fitzgerald's bad translation, and the history of the poem.
language: English
title: The Rubaiyyat Of Omar Khayyam
titlecomplete: The Rubaiyyat Of Omar Khayyam
genres: Islam, Literature, Classics, Asia, Philosophy, Religion, Spirituality, Fiction, Poetry, Iran
ratings_count: 21775
places: Persia
publisher: Harmondsworth, Penguin,