DIVAN OF OMAR KHAYYAM Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Omar Khayyam (died 1132) was one of the early masters of the Persian poetic form of the ruba'i... so much so that many in collections of these profound, philosophic, mystical, sometimes controversial poems were often attributed to him, although many were by other great Persian poets such as 'Attar, Sadi, Rumi and Hafiz. More famous in his homeland as an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher.....
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