In Search of Omar Khayyam (Rle Iran B) Book

Contents: Introduction. Note on Transliteration. Preface to the Persian Second Edition. Part 1: In Search of Khayyam 1. Khayyam as Poet 2. Khayyam as Seen by his Contemporaries 3. Meanness or Common Sense? 4. Hero or Martyr? 5. A Dispute with a Prince 6. Khayyam from his own Writings 7. Khayyam and Sufism 8. Khayyam and Isma’ilism Part 2: In Search of the Quatrains 1. The Key Quatrains 2. The Axis of Life and Death 3. Khayyam’s Literary Style 4. Khayyam and his Imitators 5. Khayyam’s Wine-Poetry 6. Khayyam as Seen by the West 7. The Selected Quatrains 8. Some Khayyam-like Quatrains Part 3: Random Thoughts 1. ‘Whence we have come, and whither do we go?’ 2. ‘If it was bad, whose was the fault but His?’ 3. ‘A tiny gnat appears – and disappears’ 4. ‘The Withered Tulip Never Blooms Again’ 5. ‘Whether this Breath I take will be My Last.’ Appendix I: Biographical Notes. Appendix II: Glossary of Technical Terms. Bibliography. Index.