The author of this book, J.K.M. Shirazi, wrote in the Preface that he or she was Persian, but no other information can be found. As the book was published in the UK and the US in 1905 it is within the Public Domain.
The book is a short but fascinating biography of the Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet Omar Khayyam, and contains several quatrains from his Rubaiyat.
The text was taken from the Internet Archive, and checked against the pdf version. I have silently corrected typos, curled quotes, replaced italics and diacritics, and made changes to spelling, punctuation, and hyphenation using oxforddictionaries.com.
The book is a short but fascinating biography of the Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet Omar Khayyam, and contains several quatrains from his Rubaiyat.
The text was taken from the Internet Archive, and checked against the pdf version. I have silently corrected typos, curled quotes, replaced italics and diacritics, and made changes to spelling, punctuation, and hyphenation using oxforddictionaries.com.
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