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This is a vintage edition of the book The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, edited by Y. Jamshidipur and published in Tehran in 1964. The book is a collection of quatrains (four-line poems) originally written in 11th-century Persia by the mathematician and astronomer Omar Khayyam. The text in this edition has been rendered into English verse by Edward FitzGerald. The poems explore themes of love, fate, mortality, and the transient nature of life. FitzGerald's translation was first published in 1859 and became a major work of English poetry