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Mirafzali’s Compendium of Earliest Khayyam Rubaiyat

Sayyid Ali Mirafzali

Ruba’`iyyat-i Khayyam dar Manabi`-i Kuhan

1.

A. Poems not attributed to Khayyam in early sources that are considered his in later collections:

1. 1126 CE

أحمد الغزالي

رسالهءی عينية

آرند یکی و دیگری بربایند
بر هیچ کس این راز همی نگشایند
ما راز قضا جز این قدر ننمایند
پیمانه تویی , باد به تو پیمایند

B.

Poems in early sources attributed to Khayyam by name:

1.

p 24

From Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, Risalat al-Tanbih, before 1209 CE

 دارنده چو ترکیب
طبایع آراست
باز از چه سبب فکندش اندر کم و کاست
گر خوب نیامد این بنا عیب کاراست
ور خوب آمد, خرابی از بهر چراست

2.

مرصاد العباد

نجم الدين أبو بكر أسدي رازي

1221 CE

در دائره أي کآمدن و رفتن ماست
او را نه بدایت نه نهایت پیداست
کس می نزند دامی درین عالم راست
کاین آمدن از کجا و رفتن به کجا

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