Rubaiyat
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- Ruba'iyat, a collection of Ruba'i (a form of Persian poetry). The best-known example of such a collection is the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, to the extent that Rubaiyat is often used as a short name for this particular collection. There are also rubaiyats by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi-Rumi and Hafez. Among modern Iranian poets, the rubaiyat of Hossein Ghods-Nakhai have been translated into various languages.
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