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| Abu Said ibn Abi al-Khair |
(ä´b sä´ d ´b n äb ´ äl-kh r´) (KEY) , 967–1049, Persian poet, a Sufi and a dervish. He was the first to write rubaiyat (quatrains) in the Sufistic strain that Omar Khayyam made famous. |
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