Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam And Salaman And Absal Dodo Press

Download or read book Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and Salaman and Absal (Dodo Press) written by Omar Khayyam and published by . This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is a collection of poems, originally written in the Persian language and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to the Persian mathematician and astronomer Omar Khayyam (full name: Ghiyas od-Din Abol-Fat'h Omar ibn Ebrahim Khayyam Neyshaburi) (1048-1122/23). "Rubaiyat" (derived from the Arabic root word for 4) means "quatrains" verses of four lines. The translations that are best known in English are those of about a hundred verses by Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883) published between 1859 and 1889. Jami Noureddin Abdurrahman, also known as Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami (1414-1492) was a Persian Poet born at Jam, in Khorassan. His best known poems are Yusuf and Salikha, Majnun and Laili, and Salaman and Absal. In addition to his poetry, he wrote a history of the Sufi, and other prose works. FitzGerald's translation of Salaman and Absal in Miltonic Verse was published anonymously in 1856.