Ali Dashti

In Search of Omar Khayyam (RLE Iran B)

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Produktbeschreibung

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 authenticity is not questioned. Khayyam emerges as a widely read and broad-minded scholar, immersed in his own studies, cautious and moderate, averse to committing himself on controversial questions. Using this portrait Dashti draws up a list of some hundred quatrains which are in keeping with Khayyam's character. Selling point: An elegant and accurate translation which throws light on the nature of Khayyam's religious and philosophical beliefs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 589g
• ISBN-13: 9780415608510
• ISBN-10: 0415608511
• Artikelnr.: 40140640

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Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction. Note on Transliteration. Preface to the Persian
Second Edition. Part 1: In Search of Khayyam 1. Khayyam as Poet 2. Khayyam
as Seen by his Contemporaries 3. Meanness or Common Sense? 4. Hero or
Martyr? 5. A Dispute with a Prince 6. Khayyam from his own Writings 7.
Khayyam and Sufism 8. Khayyam and Isma'ilism Part 2: In Search of the
Quatrains 1. The Key Quatrains 2. The Axis of Life and Death 3. Khayyam's
Literary Style 4. Khayyam and his Imitators 5. Khayyam's Wine-Poetry 6.
Khayyam as Seen by the West 7. The Selected Quatrains 8. Some Khayyam-like
Quatrains Part 3: Random Thoughts 1. 'Whence we have come, and whither do
we go?' 2. 'If it was bad, whose was the fault but His?' 3. 'A tiny gnat
appears - and disappears' 4. 'The Withered Tulip Never Blooms Again' 5.
'Whether this Breath I take will be My Last.' Appendix I: Biographical
Notes. Appendix II: Glossary of Technical Terms. Bibliography. Index.