Edward Henry Whinfield (1836–1922) was a translator of
Persian literature
Persian literature ( fa, ادبیات فارسی, Adabiyâte fârsi, ) comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures. It spans over two-and-a-half millennia. Its sources h ...
. He wrote the first well-commented English translations of
Hafez
Khwāje Shams-od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī ( fa, خواجه شمسالدین محمّد حافظ شیرازی), known by his pen name Hafez (, ''Ḥāfeẓ'', 'the memorizer; the (safe) keeper'; 1325–1390) and as "Hafiz", ...
and
Rumi,
as well as a side-by-side translation of 500 quatrains of the
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in 1883.
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1836 births
1922 deaths
Translators of Omar Khayyám
Persian–English translators
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