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Omar Khayyam



Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), Persian poet, astronomer, and mathematician. His epic poem Rubaiyat, dealing with nature and love, is known in the West through its translation (1859) by Edward FitzGerald.

See also: Rubaiyat.

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