Author:Omar Khayyám

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Omar Khayyám
(1048–1131)

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(Persian عمر خیام), Persian mathematician, astronomer, and writer born in Nishapur, Persia (Iran). He was originally named Ghiyath al-Din Abu'l-Fath Omar ibn Ibrahim Al-Nisaburi Khayyámi (غياث الدين ابو الفتح عمر بن ابراهيم خيام نيشابوري). Khayyám (خیام) is an Arabic loanword meaning "tentmaker".

Works

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
- Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Le Gallienne)
- translation by FitzGerald (transcription project) (1905 ed.)

Works about Khayyám

"'Omar Khayyām," by Karl Hermann Ethé in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

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