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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, as well as a side-by-side translation of 500 quatrains of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in 1883.

References

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

External links

• Works by Edward Henry Whinfield at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Edward Henry Whinfield at the Internet Archive
• Works by Edward Henry Whinfield at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

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