At the age of 88, Iranian scholar and translator Mohammad Mehdi Fuladvand died on August 5, 2008. Fuladvand was the first who translated the Quran into French, but he also published translations of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. These were published in editions in Persian and French, for the first time in 1960. A more recent edition, Omar Khayyâm. Les quatrains, was published in 1996 by Editions Du Rocher.
Fuladvand, born in Arak (Iran), studied literature, art, philosophy and Arabic at the Sorbonne in Paris. His doctoral thesis was on Khayyam.
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