Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám [antikvár]

OMAR KHAYYAMTHEASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIAOmar Khayyam was born at Naishapiir in Khorassan in the latter half of our Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of our Twelfth Century. The slender Story of his Life is curiously twined about that of two other very considerable Figures in their Time and Country : one of whom tells the Story of all Three. This was Nizam ul Mulk, Vizyr to Alp Arslan the Son, and Malik Shah the Grandson, of Toghrul Beg the Tartar, who had wrested Persia from the feeble Successor of Mahmud the Great,B