“The mighty Mahmud, Allah-breathing Lord
That all the misbelieving and black Horde
Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul
Scatters before him with his whirlwind Sword.”

—  Omar Khayyám

The Rubaiyat (1120)

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Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer 1048–1131

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