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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and attributed to Oma Khayyám (1047-1131), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A Persian ruba'i is a two line stanza with two parts per line, hence the word "Rubaiyat" (derived from the Arabic root word for 4) meaning "quatrains".