THE SUFI RUBA'IYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Omar Khayyam (died 1132) was one of the early Sufi Masters of the Persian poetic form of the ruba'i... so much so that many in collections of these profound, philosophic, mystical, sometimes controversial poems were often attributed to him, although many were by other great Persian poets such as 'Attar, Sadi, Rumi and Hafiz. C.H.A. Bjerregaard states in his 'Sufism: Omar Khayyam and E. Fitzgerald': "The writings of Omar Khayyam are good specimens of Sufism but are not valued in the West as they ought to be, and the mass of the people know him only through the poems of Edward Fitzgerald which is unfortunate. Omar was a Sufi mystic of the order of Rumi, 'Attar, Sadi and the other great ones." Hazrat Inayat Khan states: "Sufism has never had a first exponent or a historical origin. It existed from the beginning, because...
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