In Search of Omar Khayyam (RLE Iran B)

by Ali Dashti

Khayyam has been the subject of speculation on the part of literary critics ever since Edward Fitzgerald published his own version of the Rubaiyat in 1859. This edition represented the first opportunity to study in English the work of Khayyam by a Persian scholar.
There is no conclusive evidence to prove which of the many quatrains attributed to Khayyam are authentic. Ali Dashti therefore constructs a likeness of the poet from references found...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415608511
• ISBN13: 9780415608510
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"