Download or read book A Thousand Years of Persian Rubáiyát written by Reza Saberi and published by Ibex Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. In A THOUSAND YEARS OF PERSIAN RUBAIYAT, Reza Saberi translates over 1,500 quatrains from more than a hundred Iranian poets from the beginning of written Persian poetry to the present. A ruba'i is a poem in four lines, which is complete in itself and expresses a single feeling or thought in a very concise and elegant language. The subjects of rubaiyat include divine love, the ecstasy of love, mystical knowledge, and the nature of life and existence.