The Great Umar Khayyam A Global Reception of the Rubáiyát

• Main Author: Seyed-Gohrab, A.A (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden University Press 2012
• Series: Iranian Studies Series
• Subjects: Persian (Farsi); Poetry by individual poets; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; linguïstiek; linguistics; Netherlands; Persian language; Persian literature; Persians; Quatrain
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

The Rubáiyát by the Persian poet 'Umar Khayyæm (1048-1131) is used in contemporary Iran as a resistance literature, symbolizing the secularist voice in cultural debates. While Islamic fundamentalists criticize Khayyæm as an atheist and materialist philosopher who questions God's creation a...