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Omar Khayyám


Born
in Nishapur, Khorasan, Seljuq empire
March 01, 1048

Died
September 04, 1131

Genre
Poetry, Science, Philosophy

Influences
Ibn al-Rawandi, Al-Maʿarri, Muhammad al Warraq, Muhammad ibn Zakariya ...more


Arabic:عمر الخيام Persian:عمر خیام
Kurdish: عومەر خەییام


Omar Khayyám was a Persian polymath, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, physician, and poet. He wrote treatises on mechanics, geography, and music. His significance as a philosopher and teacher, and his few remaining philosophical works, have not received the same attention as his scientific and poetic writings. Zamakhshari referred to him as “the philosopher of the world”. Many sources have testified that he taught for decades the philosophy of Ibn Sina in Nishapur where Khayyám was born buried and where his mausoleum remains today a masterpiece of Iranian architecture visited by many people every year.

Outside Iran and Persian speaking countries, Khayyám has had impact on liter ...more

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رباعيات خيام
4.17 avg rating — 21,826 ratings — published 1952 — 3174 editions
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Strategies of Prophet Muhammad
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Interpretation of Dreams
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نوروزنامه
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Selections Poems from: Khay...
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The Rose Garden of Omar Kha...
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“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
― OMAR KHAYYAM, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
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“Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
― Omar Khayyam, رباعيات خيام
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“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”
― Omar Khayyám
tags: indelibility, poetry, regret, time
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