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The great Umar Khayyam : a global reception of the Rubaiy /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Seyed-Gohrab, A. A. (Ali Asghar), 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Great 'Umar Khayyæm; Contents; Acknowledgments; Khayyæm's Universal Appeal: Man, Wine, and the Hereafter in the Quatrains; Reading the Rubæ <iyyæt as "ResistanceLiterature"; Some <Umarian Quatrains from the Lifetime of<Umar Khayyām; Between Tavern and Madrasa: <Umar Khayyæm the Scientist; The Arab <Umar Khayyæm; Singing the quatrains Omar Khayyām and Umm Kulthūm; Quatrains of <Umar Khayyæm in Turkish, and Turkish Quatrains; Other Persian Quatrains in Holland: the Roseraie du Savoir of „usayn-i Æzæd; <Umar Khayyæm's Impact on Dutch Literature; Bitter Certainty: J.H. Leopold On <UmarKhayyæm.
  • How <Umar Khayyæm Inspired Dutch VisualArtistsThe Legacy of <Umar Khayyæm in Music of theNetherlands; The Russian perception of Khayyæm: from text toimage; The Translation of <Umar Khayyæm's Poetry into Georgian
  • a Touchstone of Translators; The Reception of FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of <UmarKhayyám by the Victorians; Vernacularizing Rubaiyat: the Politics of Madhushala in the context of the Indian Nationalism; Attempts at locating the Rubáiyát in Indian Philosophical thought; An <Umar Khayyæm Database; Index.