The great 'Umar Khayyam : a global reception of The Rubáiyát / A.A. Seyed-Gohrab (ed.).
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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