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1 author names match this search. Names and uncertain attributions are preserved as recorded.

Later sculptural depiction; not a lifetime portraitAlireza Javaheri · CC BY 3.0

Omar Khayyám

Persian thinker whose attributed quatrains reached readers through varied collections and translations. Compare FitzGerald’s English versions without assuming they settle authorship of the Persian poems.

1048 AD – 1131 AD · 33 collected ↗