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Omar Khayyam (1048–1131) was a Persian poet and polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and Persian literature. He was born in Nishapur, Iran and lived during the Seljuk era, around the time of the First Crusade.
science · Persian polymath and poet (1048–1131) · mathematician · astronomer · poet · lyricist · philosopher · musician · astrologer · writer · physicist · also Omar Khayyám, Omar Khayyam, Hakim Omar Khayyám, Khayyám
Born 18 May 1048 · Died 4 December 1131 · Q35900
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We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is adamant to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, ‘Too late.’ There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect. Omar Khayyam is right: ‘The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on.’
“We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is adamant to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, ‘Too late.’ There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect. Omar Khayyam is right: ‘The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on.’”
Scroll.in: ‘The mind is a strange soil’: On Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyyat, the rains, and writing death
Three statues of Khayyam were unveiled: one at the University of Oklahoma, one in Nishapur and one in Florence, Italy
The state of Iran donated a pavilion to the United Nations Office in Vienna, inaugurated at Vienna International Center
As was the minor planet 3095 Omarkhayyam discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova in 1980
Was inspired by this quatrain of the translation of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald
Commented that the name of Omar Khayyam "is to be struck out from the history of Persian literature" due to the lack of any material that could confidently be attributed to him
Harold Lamb published a historical novel Omar Khayyam
Listed more than 300 separate editions, and many more have been published since
This calendar was simplified and the names of the months were modernised, resulting in the modern Iranian calendar
The Jalali calendar became the official national calendar of Qajar Iran
FitzGerald had a third edition printed which increased interest in the work in America
And Gore Ouseley (1770–1844) into English in 1846, but Khayyam remained relatively unknown in the West until after the publication of Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in 1859
Died 1131-12-04.
“Ouço dizer que os amantes do vinho serão danados no inferno. Não é verdade, mas há mentiras evidentes. Se os que amam o vinho e o amor vão para o inferno, o paraíso deve estar vazio.”
Born 1048-05-18.