biography
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Omar Khayyám
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also spelled Umar Khayyám
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pronunciation:
[kayam]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1050–c.1122)
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| biography:
| Poet, mathematician, and astronomer, born in Nishapur, Persia. Summoned to Merv by the sultan, he reformed the Muslim calendar, and was known to the Western world as a mathematician, until in 1859 Edward FitzGerald published a translation of his Rubáiyát (‘Quatrains’). The work is now regarded as an anthology of which little or nothing may be by Omar. |
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