Edward Henry Whinfield
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1836 – 1922
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Who was Edward Henry Whinfield?
Edward Henry Whinfield was a translator of Persian literature. He composed 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.
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