In Search of Omar Khayyam

In Search of Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam

ʻAlī Dashtī

New York Columbia University Press

Translated from the Persian by L.P. Elwell-Sutton

Series: Persian studies monographs ; no. 1.

Cover; In search of omar khayyam; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Note on transliteration; Preface to the persian second edition; Part One: 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 Two: 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 quatrains8. Some khayyam-like quatrains; Part Three: Random thoughts; 1. 'Whence we have come, and whither do we go?'; 2. 'If it was bad, whose was thefault but his?'; 3. 'A tiny gnat appears-anddisappears'; 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

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