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  • The Great 'Umar Khayyam: A Global Reception of the Rubáiyát
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  • Edited by Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
  • 2012
  • Published by: Leiden University Press
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The Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer ‘Umar Khayyám (1048-1131), is best known for his remarkable and highly influential poem cycle, “The Rubáiyát”. These poems, of which there are nearly a thousand, have been used in contemporary Iran as resistance literature, symbolizing the secularist voice in cultural debates. Offering a unique overview of a selection of poems, this anthology collects eighteen essays on the history of the reception of the celebrated work in various literary translations and editions, exploring how Khayyám’s philosophy as presented in his poetry has inspired generations of poets, novelists, painters, musicians, calligraphers, filmmakers, and freethinkers

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. 7-8
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. 9-10
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  1. Introduction
  1. Khayyām’s Universal Appeal: Man, Wine, and the Hereafter in the Quatrains
  2. Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
  3. pp. 11-38
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  1. Kkayyām in Persia
  1. Reading the Rubā 'iyyāt as “Resistance Literature”
  2. Mehdi Aminrazavi
  3. pp. 39-54
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  1. Some 'Umarian Quatrains from the Lifetime of 'Umar Khayyām
  2. Alexander H. Morton
  3. pp. 55-66
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  1. Between Tavern and Madrasa: 'Umar Khayyām the Scientist
  2. Mohammad Bagheri
  3. pp. 67-72
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  1. Khayyām in the Arab World and Turkey
  1. The Arab 'Umar Khayyām
  2. M. Alsulami
  3. pp. 73-84
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  1. Singing the quatrains Omar Khayyām and Umm Kulthūm
  2. Jan Just Witkam
  3. pp. 85-96
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  1. Quatrains of 'Umar Khayyām in Turkish, and Turkish Quatrains
  2. S. Sötemann
  3. pp. 97-104
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  1. Khayyām in the Netherlands
  1. Other Persian Quatrains in Holland: the Roseraie du Savoir of Ḥusayn-i Azād
  2. J.T.P. de Bruijn
  3. pp. 105-114
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  1. 'Umar Khayyām’s Impact on Dutch Literature
  2. M. Goud
  3. pp. 115-128
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  1. Bitter Certainty: J.H. Leopold On 'Umar Khayyām
  2. J.D.F. van Halsema
  3. pp. 129-134
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  1. How 'Umar Khayyām Inspired Dutch Visual Artists
  2. Jos Biegstraaten
  3. pp. 135-142
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  1. The Legacy of 'Umar Khayyām in Music of the Netherlands
  2. Rokus de Groot
  3. pp. 143-160
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  1. The Russian and Georgian Reception of Khayyām
  1. The Russian perception of Khayyām: from text to image
  2. F. Abdullaeva, N. Chalisova, Ch. Melville
  3. pp. 161-188
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  1. The Translation of 'Umar Khayyām’s Poetry into Georgian – a Touchstone of Translators
  2. T. Shurgaia
  3. pp. 189-202
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  1. Khayyām's Reception in Victorian England
  1. The Reception of FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of 'Umar Khayyām by the Victorians
  2. Esmail Z. Behtash
  3. pp. 203-214
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  1. Khayyām in India
  1. Vernacularizing Rubaiyat: the Politics of Madhushala in the context of the Indian Nationalism
  2. A. Castaing
  3. pp. 215-232
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  1. Attempts at locating the Rubáiyát in Indian Philosophical thought
  2. A. Rangarajan
  3. pp. 233-244
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  1. International Khayyām Data-base
  1. An 'Umar Khayyām Database
  2. Jos Coumans
  3. pp. 245-252
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 253-267
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  1. Backlist and Frontlist
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  1. Figures (1-31)
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