Remembering Omar Khayyam: 10 Rubaiyat by the poet on his birth anniversary

Remembering Omar Khayyam: 10 Rubaiyat by the poet on his birth anniversary

Omar Khayyam Quotes, Poems, Books: Omar Khayyam wrote more than a thousand ‘Rubaiyat’ or verses and a part of his work was later translated by Edward Fitzgerald which became popular in the West centuries after his death. We take a look at some of his Rubaiyat on the occasion of his 971th birthday.

As an astronomer, he designed the Jalali calendar, a solar calendar with a very precise 33-year intercalation cycle