Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 1946 The Heritage Press w/Slipcase New Includes Sandglass I : 36R Omar Khayyám (1048–1122) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and a philosopher who was not known as a poet in his lifetime. Later, a body of quatrains became attached to his name, although not all were his works. These verses lay in obscurity until 1859, when Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883), an English country gentleman, published a free adaptation of this Persian poetry. #rubaiyat#omarkhayyam#Theheritagepress#vintagebooks#bookstore