The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Description

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 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. The nature of a translation very much depends on what interpretation one places on Khayyam's philosophy. The fact that the rubaiyat is a collection of quatrains – and may be selected and rearranged subjectively to support one interpretation or another – has led to widely differing versions. Some took the view that Khayyam himself clearly was a Sufi. Others have seen signs of mysticism, even atheism, or conversely devout and orthodox Islam. This translation contains 101 verses.

This book has 21 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in the 1850's.

Production notes: This ebook of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was published by Global Grey in 2018.