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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam presents Persian quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam in an English rendering by Edward FitzGerald, published in 1859. The translation initially met with little commercial success, but by the 1880s it had spread widely across the English-speaking world, where it helped fuel clubs and interest associated with a fin de siècle cult. The poems have also generated long-running debate about their meaning: whether they reflect religious skepticism and an Epicurean outlook, or whether they instead draw on mystical Sufi ideas that were not fully captured or were misunderstood in translation. Even the authenticity of the quatrains themselves remains uncertain.
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