The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1

active 14th century Hafiz

A beloved Persian lyric poet from Shiraz, he became famous for musical, image-rich ghazals about love, wine, longing, and spiritual insight. His Divan has been read for centuries and remains deeply woven into Persian culture.

Omar Khayyam

1048–1122

Best known for the quatrains later gathered as the Rubaiyat, this Persian writer was also a major mathematician and astronomer whose work reached far beyond poetry. His life joined science, philosophy, and verse in a way that still feels strikingly modern.