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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Antique hardcover)

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Antique hardcover)

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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".

Antique hardcover with dust jacket published by The Peter Pauper Press circa 1950s.

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