Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . Willi rrrtf-rf-tfi Omar Khayyam THE ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA(By Edward Fitzgerald) AMAR KHAYYAM was born at Naishapur in^-^ Khorasan in the latter half of our Eleventh,and died within the First Quarter of our TwelfthCentury. The slender Story of his Life is curi-ously twined about that of two other very consid-erable Figures in their Time and Country: oneof whom tells the Story of all Three. This wasNizam ul Mulk, Vizyr to Alp Arslan the Son,and Malik Shah the Grandson, of Toghrul Begthe Tartar, who had wrested Persia from the fee-ble

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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . Willi rrrtf-rf-tfi Omar Khayyam THE ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA(By Edward Fitzgerald) AMAR KHAYYAM was born at Naishapur in^-^ Khorasan in the latter half of our Eleventh,and died within the First Quarter of our TwelfthCentury. The slender Story of his Life is curi-ously twined about that of two other very consid-erable Figures in their Time and Country: oneof whom tells the Story of all Three. This wasNizam ul Mulk, Vizyr to Alp Arslan the Son,and Malik Shah the Grandson, of Toghrul Begthe Tartar, who had wrested Persia from the fee-ble Successor of Mahmud the Great, and foundedthat Seljukian Dynasty which finally roused Europe. f m nnnnn iiiinmjnmnnr ? omm^^^^^a^^^^

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