A Survey on Nine Khayyamian Quatrains of Attar

Most of the quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam are also attributed to other poets in different Persian literary old books. There are even quatrains that are attributed to seven poets in their poetry books or in other historical biography books. This has caused confusion among scholars in finding real pieces of Omar Khayyam's written poems. Though doing a lot of job by many researchers in sifting the quatrains, it seems that there is steel a long way to go. In this paper we have studied nine common quatrains of Omar Khayyam and Farid-od Din Attar which belong to Attar and are Khayyamian in style. Paying attention to the manuscripts that included those quatrains and analyzing the stylistic, theme and motif points of each quatrain we finally concluded Khayyam had influence on Attar in writing quatrains.