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The Life, Work, and Legacy of Omar Khayyam
One World
June 2005
Featuring: Omar Khayyam
368 pages
ISBN: 1851683550
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
Loved by the free-spirited, hated by his orthdox peers; a
stranger both in his homeland and in the West: the
complexities and contradictions surrounding the life of Omar
Khayyam are reconstructed for the first time in this
authoritative new book. Engagingly written, this comprehensive study draws on a host
of sources, placing Khayyam within the context of his own
time, and exploring, through both the philosophy and the
poetry, his lifelong preoccupation with such timeless themes
as life and death, faith and reason, freewill and fate.
Aminrazavi offers fresh insights, not only into the
Ruba‘iyyat, but also into Khayyam’s lasting influence on
Western literature from Mark Twain to T. S. Eliot, and his
role in the creation of the Orientalist tradition. With original renderings of Khayyam’s key philosophical
works, and a full version of FitzGerald’s famous
translation, this new biography will prove fascinating for
general readers, while scholars and students will find this
significant new contribution to the field of Persian Studies
essential reading.
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