The Great 'Umar Khayyam : A Global Reception of the Rubáiyát /
The Rubáiyát by the Persian poet 'Umar Khayyaem (1048-1131) is used in contemporary Iran as a resistance literature, symbolizing the secularist voice in cultural debates. While Islamic fundamentalists criticize Khayyaem as an atheist and materialist philosopher who questions God's creation...
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2012.
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Table of Contents:
- The Great 'Umar Khayyaem; Contents; Acknowledgments; Khayyaem's Universal Appeal: Man, Wine, and the Hereafter in the Quatrains; Reading the Rubae <iyyaet as "ResistanceLiterature"; Some <Umarian Quatrains from the Lifetime of<Umar Khayyām; Between Tavern and Madrasa: <Umar Khayyaem the Scientist; The Arab <Umar Khayyaem; Singing the quatrains Omar Khayyām and Umm Kulthūm; Quatrains of <Umar Khayyaem in Turkish, and Turkish Quatrains; Other Persian Quatrains in Holland: the Roseraie du Savoir of „usayn-i AEzaed; <Umar Khayyaem's Impact on Dutch Literature; Bitter Certainty: J.H. Leopold On <UmarKhayyaem.
- How <Umar Khayyaem Inspired Dutch VisualArtistsThe Legacy of <Umar Khayyaem in Music of theNetherlands; The Russian perception of Khayyaem: from text toimage; The Translation of <Umar Khayyaem's Poetry into Georgian
- a Touchstone of Translators; The Reception of FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of <UmarKhayyám by the Victorians; Vernacularizing Rubaiyat: the Politics of Madhushala in the context of the Indian Nationalism; Attempts at locating the Rubáiyát in Indian Philosophical thought; An <Umar Khayyaem Database; Index.