A critical review of the Rubaiyat attributed to Khayyam and Majd-e Hamgar

A good number of the Ruba’iyat (quatrains) ascribed to Khayyam have been attributed to other poets here and there in poetry books, and this has caused researchers to cast doubt on the attribution of the Rubaiyat to this or that particular poet. However, they have also made certain mistakes regarding Khayyam and his Rubaiyat. It is over a century since both Persian and foreign scholars have investigated into the accuracy of attribution to Khayyam of these quatrains. Yet, the necessity for more research in this field holds as urgent now as ever. glance through the lists of Arabic verses and proverbial expressions in relation to to the commentaries of the Mathnavi.. Here, what have been overlooked are the thoughts and culture of ancient Persians, which, unfortunately, hold no appropriate place in the commentaries on the Persian classical texts. Despite the fact that most of the Middle Persian (Pahlavi) texts have been lost, there are still enough materials about Persians and their ancient culture scattered, varied and rich though, here and there in Arabic texts that can make up for the lost Pahlavi texts. One can claim that the most important sources for the ancient Persian culture are Arabic. In this article, we will demonstrate that not only are Arabic texts not the provenances of a good number of axioms and sayings but also most of them are originally Persian, and that. it is the Arabic literature which owes to the ancient Persian language and literature It is, therefore, essential that our literary scholars and men of insight pay necessary attention to this matter. The reason for doing this study is the huge influence of the two books, Ahadith-e Mathnavi and Ma’akhez-e qesas and tamsilat-e Mathnavi (“the origins of the stories and proverbial expressions in the Mathnavi”) on the researches related to the Mathnavi