Title: The wine of wisdom
First published: 2005
Description: "Loved by the free-spirited, hated by his orthodox peers; a stranger in both his homeland and the West: the complexities and contradictions surrounding the life of Omar Khayyam are reconstructed for the first time in this new book." "This comprehensive study draws on a host of sources, placing Khayyam within the context of his own time, and exploring, through his philosophy and 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."--Jacket.
Subjects: Biography, Persian Poets, Poets, Persian, Persian poetry, History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Omar khayyam, Poets, biography
People: Omar Khayyam
Time periods: 747-1500
LC classification: PK6524 .R39 2005