LEADER 03459oam 2200637I 450 001 9910452148803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-67013-4 010 $a1-136-84085-0 010 $a9786613647061 010 $a0-203-83309-0 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203833094 035 $a(CKB)2550000000100159 035 $a(EBL)801918 035 $a(OCoLC)797919263 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000677941 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11414856 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000677941 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10698389 035 $a(PQKB)10883007 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC801918 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL801918 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10558562 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL364706 035 $a(OCoLC)795403345 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000100159 100 $a20180706d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIn search of Omar Khayyam /$fAli Dashti ; translated from the Persian by L.P. Elwell-Sutton 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (279 p.) 225 0 $aRoutledge library editions. Iran ;$vv. 12 300 $aFirst published in English in 1971. 311 $a0-415-60851-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a7. 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 330 $aKhayyam has been the subject of speculation on the part of literary critics ever since Edward Fitzgerald published his own version of the Rubaiyat in 1859. This edition represented the first opportunity to study in English the work of Khayyam by a Persian scholar. There is no conclusive evidence to prove which of the many quatrains attributed to Khayyam are authentic. Ali Dashti therefore constructs a likeness of the poet from references found in the works of writers of his day or immediately after, and from Khayyam's own works on philosophy, mathematics and astronomy, of which the auth 410 0$aRoutledge Library Editions: Iran 606 $aPersian literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPersian literature. 676 $a891.5511 676 $a891/.55/11 700 $aDashtiI?$b 'AliI?$f1895-1982.,$0903786 701 $aElwell-Sutton$b L. P$g(Laurence Paul)$0903787 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452148803321 996 $aIn search of Omar Khayyam$92020145 997 $aUNINA