In Search of Omar Khayyam (RLE Iran A).
Khayyam has been the subject of speculation on the part of literary critics ever since Edward Fitzgerald published his own version of the Rubaiyat in 1859. This edition represented the first opportunity to study in English the work of Khayyam by a Persian scholar. There is no conclusive evidence to...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2012.
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| Series: | Routledge Library Editions: Iran.
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| Summary: | Khayyam has been the subject of speculation on the part of literary critics ever since Edward Fitzgerald published his own version of the Rubaiyat in 1859. This edition represented the first opportunity to study in English the work of Khayyam by a Persian scholar. There is no conclusive evidence to prove which of the many quatrains attributed to Khayyam are authentic. Ali Dashti therefore constructs a likeness of the poet from references found in the works of writers of his day or immediately after, and from Khayyam's own works on philosophy, mathematics and astronomy, of which the auth. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (279 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780203833094 0203833090 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |