The Rubaiyyat of Omar KhayaamThe Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam is known throughout the English speaking world almost entirely through the medium of Edward Fitzgerald's mid 19th century translation. Robert Graves, an English poet, and Omar Ali Shah, a Sufi poet and classical Persian scholar, collaborated to produce this new translation of the Rubaiyyat which presents the philosophy of Omar Khayaam in a very different light. The result is an important literary event which throws a