Leather-bound gift book "Khayyam Rubai"

The name of the Persian poet Omar Khayyam is well known to everyone. His elegant quatrains - rubai - are quoted by everyone who loves the word: from the toastmaster at a magnificent wedding to the wise hermit writer. In this book, the reader will see an unfamiliar Khayyam - a great Sufi, mystic, individualist, comprehensively educated man who has lived an interesting and eventful life. He was a brilliant mathematician and astronomer, knew history, philosophy and Muslim jurisprudence well; Sultan Melik Shah treasured his company; the famous skeptical philosopher Sheikh al-Ghazali asked him for scientific explanations.

This book contains the best known and new translations of Khayyam's immortal quatrains. The new translations are made with maximum precision, designed to help the attentive reader discover their hidden, higher meaning. Elegant and wise rubai are successfully shaded by the philosophical and artistic prose of the great thinker, the story of the poet's soul's ascent to the high truth of existence.