Summary
Hazhir Teimourian, a respected commentator on Middle Eastern affairs, has offered readers a much broader study of this 11thcentury polymath in a work of considered scholarship and tremendous imaginative sympathy. We learn a good deal of the challenging political and cultural environment in which the young [OMAR KHAYYAM] grew up in his native city of Nishapur in north-eastern Iran, captured by the Seljuks in 1040, eight years before his birth.
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His Own Man
OMAR KHAYYAM: POET, REBEL, ASTRONOMER by Hazhir Teimourian Sutton, £20, pp. 384 ISBN 9780750947152 £16 (plus 2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655
What little most of us know about Omar Khayyam can be summarised in two words: the Rubaiyat, a collection of his freespi...See the full content of this document
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