Edward Henry Whinfield

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Edward Henry Whinfield (1836–1922) was a translator of Persian literature. He wrote the first well-commented English translations of Hafez and Rumi,[1] as well as a side-by-side translation of 500 quatrains of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in 1883.

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  1. ^ "Through a veil, darkly. Translations of a poem by Omar Khayyam".
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