Poetry Translation in English and Kurdish Short Review on Hazhar and Fitzgerald Translation for the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

This paper tends to introduce works that try to transfere the Khayyam s philosephical and Ideological belifes via translating his Rubayyats. Hazhar‘s translation is regarded as one of thegreatest poems in Kurdish literature and translation of Khayyam‘s Rubbayies and compare its features with the famous one in English which was undertaken by Edward Fitzgerald in English. Here to do this four of the original Rubbayies selected from original version in Persian and theirtranslations by Hazhar and Fitzgerald but till the end it finds out that the English version undergoesIdeological manipulation and Kurdish one faced with more constraction and lexical changes which both destorted the original work in some of the features, but both can be counted as a valuable works in translation and need to be introduced and more works on.

Keywords:

the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam , Poetry Translation , Hazhar , FitzGerald , Review