Image: ‘Abdullāh Cevdet, Rubā‘iyyāt-ı Ḫayyām ve Türkçe'ye Tercümeleri, 2nd ed. (Istanbul; Maṭba‘a-ı Şirket-i Mürettibiye, 1926)
Description: A leading Turkish freethinker, publicist, and physicist, Abdullah Cevdet, who is also noted as the first translator of Shakespeare's tragedies into Turkish as well for his political opposition during the reign of ‘Abdülḥamīd II, published two editions of prose translations of Khayyām in Turkish. The first, published in 1914, went out of print after a few years, and the second edition was published in 1926.
Title: ‘Abdullāh Cevdet, Rubā‘iyyāt-ı Ḫayyām ve Türkçe'ye Tercümeleri, 2nd ed. (Istanbul; Maṭba‘a-ı Şirket-i Mürettibiye, 1926)
Credit: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/iranian-studies/article/quatrains-of-many-receptions-a-survey-of-perceptions-of-omar-khayyam-in-ottoman-and-turkish-translations/7266A429F85FCAF7736DC96D2DAC5971
Author: ‘Abdullāh Cevdet
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