The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Book

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Book


Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam, dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia".

Omar Khayyam was an Islamic scholar who was a poet as well as a mathematician and astronomer. He compiled astronomical tables and contributed to calendar reform and discovered a geometrical method of solving cubic equations by intersecting a parabola with a circle.

 

this is a beautifully illustrated version of his most beautiful poems