1st Edition

Routledge Revivals: The Romance of the Rubáiyát (1959)

By A. J. Arberry Copyright 1959
    251 Pages
    by Routledge

    251 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1959, this reprint of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát is accompanied by an introduction and notes by A J Arberry, one of Britain’s most distinguished Orientalist scholars. The Rubáiyát is a selection of poems written in Persian attributed to Omar Khayyám.

    The work will be of interest to those studying Middle Eastern Literature.

    Acknowledgements; Preliminary Essay; Introduction; Appendix; The first edition of the Rubáiyát; Table and Notes; Bibliography; Index

    Biography

    A. J. Arberry