Omar Khayyám

Born

in Nishapur, Khorasan, Iran

March 19, 1048

Died

September 25, 1131

Website

http://www.okonlife.com/

Genre

Poetry, Science, Philosophy

Influences

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

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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 by Omar Khayyám, محمدعلی فروغی (تصحيح), Edward FitzGerald (Translator), قاسم غنی (تصحيح), روشنک بحرینی 4.18 avg rating — 18,584 ratings — published 1120 — 1388 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wine of the Mystic: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: A Spiritual Interpretation by Omar Khayyám, Paramahansa Yogananda 4.26 avg rating — 325 ratings — published 1994 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strategies of Prophet Muhammad by Omar Khayyám, Darussalam 4.36 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Other Writings by Omar Khayyám, Edward FitzGerald (Translator) 4.24 avg rating — 123 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Interpretation of Dreams by Omar Khayyám, Darussalam 4.48 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rubailer 4.23 avg rating — 75 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ömer Hayyam Rubaileri by Omar Khayyám, Abdullah Cevdet (çevirmen), Mehmet Kanar (çevirmen) 4.36 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Омар Хайям. Рубаи by Omar Khayyám, Омар Хайям 4.36 avg rating — 64 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	نوروزنامه 3.85 avg rating — 62 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	رباعيات الخيام by Omar Khayyám, أحمد رامي (ترجمة) 3.69 avg rating — 58 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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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