An ‘Umar Khayyám database. Jos Coumans.
In: The great ‘Umar Khayyám. Leiden, Leiden University Press, 2012. pp. 242–252.
Coumans studies Khayyám’s popularity worldwide, offering a methodology to establish a database to view all the information on the Rubáiyát, on the original Persian source, and on the secondary literature.
Khaiyâmî. F. de Blois.
In: Persian literature. Vol. 5, part 2. London, The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ire, 1994, p. 356-380.
Biographical and bibliographical survey of Khayyám’s life, works and the study and translations of his rubáiyát.
‘Umar Khayyám. Ch.-D. de Fouchécour.
In: Encyclopedia of Islam. New. ed. 1994. Vol. 10, p. 827-831.
Al-Imām Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar b. Ibrāhīm al-Ḵh̲ayyāmī is thus named in the Mīzān al-ḥikma which ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḵh̲āzinī composed in 515/1121, often mentioning Ḵh̲ayyām for his scientific works. Abū Ḥafṣ is a kunya customarily associated with the name ʿUmar, and al-Ḵh̲ayyāmī is the form which would be expected in an Arabic work.
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Jeremy Parrott.
Book and Magazine Collector (1997) nr. 163 p. 40-52.
Edward FitzGerald’s famous translation of the poem has been issued in many collectable editions
Bibliografie. J. Coumans.
Boekenwereld 13 (1997) nr. 3 (mrt.), p. 130-144
Annotated list of Dutch translations
Omar Khayyám in Italia. Angelo M. Piemontese.
Oriente Moderno 54 (1974) 4, pp. 133–151
La fresca riedizione della versione delle Quartine di ‘Omar Khayyam a opera di Francesco Gabrieli, comparsa nelle librerie al principio di quest’anno e gia salutata alia sua pristina stampa (1944) come la prima italiana integrate e originate, in felice concomitanza con il qui festeggiato genetliaco del nostro illustre orientalista (in cui io, non tanto per ostinato vezzo, quanto osservandone gl’interessi ellenistici e l’amore per le lettere clas siche e la tradizione culturale europea, e ritenendone non secondari o trascurabili i fre quenti scritti esulanti dal Pambito orientalistico, preferisco vedere pui globalmente un par ticolare umanista), mi parve Poccasione ideate per addurgli in omaggio un saggio biblio grafico sulla conoscenza di Khayyam in Italia.
Edward FitzGerald. Michael Timko
In: The Victorian Poets. A Guide to Research. Second edition. Ed. Frederic E. Faverty. Cambrdige, Harvard University Press, 1968. p. 137-148