Word: sakinamah
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...published in 1875 by Trubner Bros., London, and either my judgment is at fault, or the name of Khayyam ought scarcely to be mentioned in the same breath as Hafiz. All those who are interested in Persian literature are recommended to read all of Hafiz's odes and his Sakinamah and Menghanninamah, and to compare them with the best pieces of Rome and Greece. They are probably the best specimens of all Oriental literature, and are as far above Omar Khayyam as heaven is above earth...
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