The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

About this film

Librivox recording of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám, translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Read by Alaaious. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Persian: رباعیات عمر خیام). The Rubáiyát (Arabic: رباعیات) is a collection of poems, originally written in the Persian language and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to the Persian mathematician and astronomer Omar Khayyám (1048 – 1123). "Rubaiyat" (derived from the Arabic root word for 4) means "quatrains": verses of four lines.(Summary from Wikipedia) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org . For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. Download M4B (7MB)

Directors & creators

Omar Khayyam

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks; poetry; Rubaiyat; Omar Khayyam; Persian; quatrain; Edward Fitzgerald

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