Deputy Culture Minister Seyyed mohammad Mojtaba Hosseini and a host of Iranian artists and international guests attended the first conference in Tehran on Thursday to concentrate on Omar Khayyam’s life and work, as a scientist, scholar and poet, the genre of the Rubai and the musical settings of his Rubaiyat. The Rubaiyat of the eleventh-century Persian writer, Omar Khayyam, has become the most widely known poem in the world. It has been republished and translated into some eighty different languages.
