The Great 'Umar Khayyam : A Global Reception of the Rubáiyát / A.A. Seyed-Gohrab (ed.).

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (270 pages): illustrationsContent type:
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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.
Summary: 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 and the promise of reward or punishment in the hereafter, secularist intellectuals see in him an example of a scientist who scrutinizes the mysteries of the world. Others see a spritual master, a Sufi, who guides people to the truth. This volume collects eighteen essays on the history of the reception of 'Umar Khayyaem in various literary traditions, exporing how his philosophy of doubt, carpe diem, hedonism, and in vino veritas has inspired generations of poets, novelists, painters, musicians, calligraphers and film-makers.
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The Great 'Umar Khayyaem; Contents; Acknowledgments; Khayyaem's Universal Appeal: Man, Wine, and the Hereafter in the Quatrains; Reading the Rubae &lt;iyyaet as "ResistanceLiterature"; Some &lt;Umarian Quatrains from the Lifetime of&lt;Umar Khayyām; Between Tavern and Madrasa: &lt;Umar Khayyaem the Scientist; The Arab &lt;Umar Khayyaem; Singing the quatrains Omar Khayyām and Umm Kulthūm; Quatrains of &lt;Umar Khayyaem in Turkish, and Turkish Quatrains; Other Persian Quatrains in Holland: the Roseraie du Savoir of „usayn-i AEzaed; &lt;Umar Khayyaem's Impact on Dutch Literature; Bitter Certainty: J.H. Leopold On &lt;UmarKhayyaem.

How &lt;Umar Khayyaem Inspired Dutch VisualArtistsThe Legacy of &lt;Umar Khayyaem in Music of theNetherlands; The Russian perception of Khayyaem: from text toimage; The Translation of &lt;Umar Khayyaem's Poetry into Georgian -- a Touchstone of Translators; The Reception of FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of &lt;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 &lt;Umar Khayyaem Database; Index.

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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 and the promise of reward or punishment in the hereafter, secularist intellectuals see in him an example of a scientist who scrutinizes the mysteries of the world. Others see a spritual master, a Sufi, who guides people to the truth. This volume collects eighteen essays on the history of the reception of 'Umar Khayyaem in various literary traditions, exporing how his philosophy of doubt, carpe diem, hedonism, and in vino veritas has inspired generations of poets, novelists, painters, musicians, calligraphers and film-makers.

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