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Umar
Arab name meaning 'popular, flourishing, long living'. Umar ibn-al-Khattab was the second caliph, one of the Prophets strongest allies, founding the administrative base of the Muslim Empire. Umar Al-Khayyam, a famous Persian poet, became known throughout the English speaking world when Edward Fitzgerald translated his poem, Rubaiyat, in 1859.
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