Omar Khayyam through the Prism of Professor Hossein Sadeghi :
In recent years, through efforts by the renowned Swiss-Iranian cardiothoracic surgeon, Professor Hossein Sadeghi, Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat or quatrain poetry have been published in eight languages which, other than the original, comprise of French, English Russian, Arabic, Spanish, Japanese and Mandarin. Considered the crown jewel of Iran’s rich literature, the Rubaiyat were made famous in the west in the nineteen century by English Poet Edward FitzGerald who magisterially readapted the quatrains to the English language. Lire plus …