Name: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Rubai)
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Author: Khayyam Omar
ISBN: 9785389150508

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The great poet and outstanding scholar Omar Khayyam was born in the city of Nishapur in 1048. He wrote numerous works on philosophy, astronomy, and mathematics, and in the field of mathematics, he was several centuries ahead of his contemporaries. Today, Khayyam's scientific works are known primarily only to specialists in the history of science. Omar Khayyam's worldwide fame rests on his quatrains, or rubaiyats, in which the lyrical hero attempts to understand the universe and comprehend the nature of man and God.

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Omar Khayyam Nishapuri was an outstanding Persian mathematician and astronomer; during his lifetime he was known exclusively as a distinguished encyclopedic scholar. He was also a world-renowned poet who throughout his life wrote philosophical verses (rubaiyat) in which he expressed his innermost thoughts. Over the years, the number of quatrains attributed to Khayyam grew and exceeded 5,000, although researchers consider it possible that he authored 300–500 rubaiyat.

Omar was the son of a tentmaker; he also had a younger sister, Aisha.…

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