person
Omar Khayyam
Khayyam
also: Ghiyath al-Din Abu al-Fath Umar ibn Ibrahim al-Khayyam, Omar Khayyam Nishapuri, خیام
The author of the corpus: mathematician, astronomer, and poet of Nishapur (1048–1131). He names himself in the quatrains as Khayyam, 'the tentmaker.'
Reading notes
- The Rubaiyat §21 Khayyam
The poet names himself, as the ruba'i convention allows: 'tentmaker,' his family trade-name. One of the corpus's signature self-addressed quatrains.