TY - BOOK ID - 138190927 TI - In search of Omar Khayyam AU - Dashtī, ʻAlī AU - Elwell-Sutton, L P PY - 2011 SN - 1136840842 1280670134 1136840850 9786613647061 0203833090 9780203833094 9780415608510 0415608511 PB - London Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Persian literature. KW - Omar Khayyam. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138190927 AB - Khayyam has been the subject of speculation on the part of literary critics ever since Edward Fitzgerald published his own version of the Rubaiyat in 1859. This edition represented the first opportunity to study in English the work of Khayyam by a Persian scholar. There is no conclusive evidence to prove which of the many quatrains attributed to Khayyam are authentic. Ali Dashti therefore constructs a likeness of the poet from references found in the works of writers of his day or immediately after, and from Khayyam's own works on philosophy, mathematics and astronomy, of which the auth ER -