The Rubaiyat Author:Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald (Translator) Designed by Charles Ziga. Omar Khayyam was born at Naishapur in Khprassan in the latter half of our Eleventh, and died within the first quarter of our Twelfth Century. This slender story of his life is curiously twined with two considerable figures of their time and country: Nizam ul Mulk, Vizyur to Alp Arslan the Son, and Malik Shah, the grands... more »on of Toghryl Beg the Tartar...« less