Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Rory OConor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net UNIVERSAL CLASSICS LIBRARY ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAVURES ON JAPAN VELLUM, ETCHINGS HAND PAINTED INDIA-PLATE REPRODUCTIONS, AND FULL PAGE PORTRAITS OF AUTHORS. M WALTER DUNNE, PUBLISHER NEW YORK & LONDON COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY M. WALTER DUNNE; PUBLISHER [Illustration: _THE TOMB OF OMAR_ _From an old painting by an unknown artist_] THE SUFISTIC QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM IN DEFINITIVE FORM INCLUDING THE TRANSLATIONS OF EDWARD FITZGERALD (101 quatrains) With Edward Heron-Allen's Analysis E.H. WHINFIELD (500 quatrains) J.B. NICOLAS (464 quatrains) WITH PREFACES BY EACH TRANSLATOR AND A GENERAL INTRODUCTION DEALING WITH OMAR'S PLACE IN SUFISM, BY ROBERT ARNOT, M.A. Author of "The Vine in Symbolism" M. WALTER DUNNE, PUBLISHER, NEW YORK & LONDON COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY M. WALTER DUNNE, PUBLISHER ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE THE TOMB OF OMAR _Frontispiece_ From an old painting by an unknown artist. THE APPROACH TO NAISHAPUR 100 From a painting by I.R. Herbert. SUFI MYSTICS GATHERED FOR MEDITATION 210 From an old painting by a Pushtu artist. TABLE OF CONTENTS