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Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World
Brown University
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Posted at Apr 08/2009 12:47PM:
Omar Khayyam (1048-1123) was a Persian mathematician, philosopher, astronomer and poet from Nishipur who worked in the court of Suljuk Sultan Malik Shah I. He introduced reforms to the Persian calendar and made significant contributions to the development of algebra. However, he is best known for his poetry, which was discovered by the West when Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883) translated and adapted a small number of his rubaiyyat, which quickly became famous. Today, he is considered one of the premier Persian poets of his era and is frequently mentioned in literature. For example, he was the main character in Amin Maalouf’s historical novel “Samarkand.”
Posted at Apr 12/2009 09:31AM:
ian: What kind of model does he offer of the medieval intellectual?