num_pages: 589
description: Poetry. In A THOUSAND YEARS OF PERSIAN RUBAIYAT, Reza Saberi translates over 1,500 quatrains from more than a hundred Iranian poets from the beginning of written Persian poetry to the present. A ruba'i is a poem in four lines, which is complete in itself and expresses a single feeling or thought in a very concise and elegant language. The subjects of rubaiyat include divine love, the ecstasy of love, mystical knowledge, and the nature of life and existence.
language: English
title: A Thousand Years of Persian Rubaiyat
titlecomplete: A Thousand Years of Persian Rubaiyat
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 7
publisher: IBEX Publishers