Omar Khayyam, The Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Omar Khayyam was born at Naishapur in Khorassan in the latter half of our Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of our Twelfth Century. The Slender Story of his Life is curiously twined about that of two other very considerable Figures in...
lately republished and translated an Arabic Treatise of his on Algebra. “His Takhallus or poetical name (Khayyam) signifies a Tent- maker, and he is said to have at one time exercised that trade, perhaps before Nizam-ul-Mulk’s generosity raised him to in- ...
OMAR KHAYYÁM was born at Naishápúr in Khorassán in the latter half of our Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of our Twelfth Century. The slender Story of his Life is curiously twined about that of two other very considerable Figures in their Time and Country: one of whom tell...
(Poetry)prosody(in Persian poetry) a verse form consisting of four-line stanzas [C19: from Arabicrubā'īyah, fromrubā'īyconsisting of four elements] Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007...
Volume III:Rubaiyatof Omar Khayyam (5th ed., 1889), Salaman and Absal (4th ed., 1879), Euphranor (3rd ed., 1882), Agamemnon (3rd ed., 1876); There are omissions--the most glaring, of course, being the inexplicable decision to print the fifth edition of theRubaiyat, which was publ...
In Islamic arts: Robāʿiyyāt: Omar Khayyam The work done in mathematics by early Arabic scholars and by al-Bīrūnī was continued by Omar Khayyam (died 1131), to whom the Seljuq empire in fact owes the reform of its calendar. But Omar has become famous in the West through the… Re...
Edward FitzGerald was an English writer, best known for his Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, which, though it is a very free adaptation and selection from the Persian poet’s verses, stands on its own as a classic of English literature. It is one of the most