Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048-1131), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A Persian rubai is a two line stanza with two parts (or hemistechs) per line, hence the word Rubaiyat, (derived from the Arabic root word for 4), meaning quatrains.
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