TEHRAN -- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the masterpiece of the Persian mathematician, astronomer and poet, Omar Khayyam Neyshaburi, has recently been published in the five languages of Persian, English, French, German and Arabic.
Persian language scholar Hossein Elahi Qomsheii has placed an interpretation of 40 poems from the book published by Farhangsaraye Mirdashti, the director of the publishing center, Hamid Mirdashti, told the Persian service of the Mehr News Agency on Monday.
The book carries the translation of a collection of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by the English writer Edward Fitzgerald.
Abolqasem Etesamzadeh, Amir-Hushang Kavusi, Kamran Jamali, Ebrahim Ariz, Mohammad Sabaei, and several other scholars collaborated in the translation of the book into other languages.
The Persian part of the book was calligraphed by Amir-Ahmad Falsafi.
Alireza Aqamiri, Amir Tahmasbi and Selina Puria created miniature paintings for the book, which was illuminated by Mohammadreza Honarvar.
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