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His own man
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OMAR KHAYYAM: POET, REBEL, ASTRONOMER by Hazhir Teimourian Sutton, £20, pp. 384 ISBN 9780750947152 £16 (plus 2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655
What little most of us know about Omar Khayyam can be summarised in two words: the Rubaiyat, a collection of his freespirited quatrains made famous around the world by the translations of the 19th-century poet Edward Fitzgerald. It has been said that these immensely popular books, first published in 1859 and running into numerous editions, contrib...
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Unstoppable display from Omar Khayyam.(Sport Cricket)
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