Title: Omar Khayyām : poet, rebel, astronomer /
Authors: Teimourian, Hazhir.
Publisher: Sutton,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Omar Khayyam; Poets, Persian Biography.
Abstract: Omar Khayyam is known to millions simply as the the author of the 'Rubaiyat'. Yet he was also a mathematical genius, a herbalist's son who became the confident of kings, and an exile who was hunted by assassins. This biography will tell the tale of the man who wrote one of the most famous poems in literature.
Contents: Prologue - Four true graveside stories -- The fire temples of Nishāpur (1048-67) -- The libraries of Samarkand (1068-72) -- The throne of Bukhara (1072-3) -- The palaces of Isfahan (1073-7) -- The boy triumphs (1077-9) -- The Vizier regrets (1079-84) -- The Shah applauds (1085-9) -- The assassin stalks (1090-2) -- The queen turns (1092-3) -- The pilgrim of Babel (1093-4) -- The recluse of Nishāpur (1094-1108) -- The sage of Khorāsān (1108-31) -- Epilogue - The story of the Rubāiyāt -- Appendixes: I. The Rubāiyāt: a new translation -- II. The FitzGerald Rubāiyāt -- III. Omar the Greek -- IV. Khayyām's mathematics and other writings.