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Selections Poems from: Khayam, Rumi, Hafez, Moulana Shah Maghsoud
A collection of some of the most beautiful poems from Omar KHAYAM, Jelalluddin RUMI, HAFEZ Shiraz, and Moulana SHAH MAGHSOUD. With the recent popularization of Persian poetry, this book is the most authentic translation of mystical literature -- translated and analyzed by the renowned Sufi Master Seyedeh Dr. Nahid Angha. This book includes an introduction to reading and understanding mystical poetry and a glossary of esoteric terms.
- GenresPoetry
114 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1991
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Omar Khayyám
490 books1,277 followersArabic: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 literature and societies through translation and works of scholars. The greatest such impact among several others was in English-speaking countries; the English scholar Thomas Hyde (1636–1703) was the first non-Persian to study him. The most influential of all was Edward FitzGerald (1809–83), who made Khayyám the most famous poet of the East in the West through his celebrated translation and adaptations of Khayyám's rather small number of quatrains (rubaiyaas) in Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.'
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 literature and societies through translation and works of scholars. The greatest such impact among several others was in English-speaking countries; the English scholar Thomas Hyde (1636–1703) was the first non-Persian to study him. The most influential of all was Edward FitzGerald (1809–83), who made Khayyám the most famous poet of the East in the West through his celebrated translation and adaptations of Khayyám's rather small number of quatrains (rubaiyaas) in Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.'
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January 3, 2014اسرار ازل را نه تو دانی و نه من
وین حرف معما نه تو خوانی و نه من
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چون پرده برافتد نه تو مانی و نه من
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February 23, 2021
Jolis quatrains, de nombreuses et joyeuses éloges au vin ! Lecture pleine de poésie merci Khayam :)
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