num_pages: 158
description: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 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 Khayyam (1048-1131), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A rubai is a two-line stanza with two parts (or hemistichs) per line, hence the word rubaiyat (derived from the Arabic language root for "four"), meaning "quatrains."
language: English
title: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
titlecomplete: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
genres: Spirituality, Fiction, Asia, Poetry, Iran, Literature, Religion, Islam, Classics, Philosophy
ratings_count: 21779
places: Persia
publisher: Wilco Publishing House