{"product_id":"2026200016141-secondhand-the-rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam","title":"The Ruba'Iyat Of Omar Khayyam","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew works in world literature have captured the human longing for beauty, pleasure, and meaning with the timeless grace of The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam — a collection of quatrains composed by the eleventh-century Persian poet, mathematician, and philosopher Omar Khayyam, here rendered into vivid English by translators Peter Avery and John Heath-Stubbs. Set against the rich intellectual and spiritual landscape of medieval Persia, these verses present a bold meditation on fate, mortality, the intoxicating pleasures of wine and love, and the ineffable mysteries of existence. Each ruba'i — a self-contained four-line poem — distills a moment of philosophical reckoning into imagery both sensuous and profound, drawing the reader into a world where gardens, goblets, and the turning of the heavens all speak to the brevity of life.\n\nAvery and Heath-Stubbs bring scholarly precision and poetic sensitivity to their translation, preserving the lyrical musicality of the original Persian while making the verses accessible to a modern Western audience. The Ruba'iyat stands as one of the great monuments of world poetry, influencing thinkers and artists from Edward FitzGerald to the Romantic poets and beyond, its skeptical yet rapturous voice as urgent today as it was a thousand years ago. This Penguin Classics edition situates Khayyam's work within its historical and cultural context, illuminating the tensions between Sufi mysticism, Islamic orthodoxy, and secular hedonism that animate every verse. For the reader who has yet to encounter Khayyam's singular voice, this is an invitation to a feast of words that will not soon be forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49342777098459,"sku":"2026200016141-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/0395d86b-5a4a-41d4-8f0e-8b5c7c601e88.png?v=1790049240","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016141-secondhand-the-rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}