The following essay by the sociolgist Mohammad H. Tamdgidi is an excerpt from a longer introduction (pp. 27-87) to the 12th and last book of his series Omar Khayyam’s Secret: Hermeneutics of the Robaiyat in Quantum Sociological Imagination, subtitled, Book 12: Khayyami Legacy: The Collected Works of Omar Khayyam (AD 1021-1123) Culminating in His Secretive 1000 Robaiyat Autobiography. The introduction was subtitled “Toward A Textually and Historically More Reliable Biography of Omar Khayyam (AD 1021-1123) Based on the Findings of This Series.” The excerpt offers a critical commentary on the role played in modern times by Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát in colonially distorting his legacy.
The following essay is an excerpt from the acknowledgments (xix-xlii) shared by Mohammad H. Tamdgidi in his book Liberating Sociology: From Newtonian Toward Quantum Imaginations: Unriddling the Quantum Enigma, published on January 20, 2020. It serves to offer a sense of the personal and historical origins, in a sociological imagination, of the book and more generally of its author’s research in the longer historical context of Western colonial interventions in Iran’s cultural, political, and economic social life.
The essay addresses issues that are deeply relevant today in 2025, which must be evident for anyone who cares to read it. However, it must also be considered in the context of the earlier time it had been written and submitted for publication in 2019.
دكتر محمدحسين تمجيدى، در روز ٢٠ خرداد ١٤٠٤ كتاب «خیمۀ خیام: حسب حالى رازآميز: هزار جرعه رباعيات تلخ و شیرین از ميكدۀ سعادت او» را انتشار داد.
The original Robaiyat of Omar Khayyam (AD 1021-1123) as shared in the forthcoming OKCIR book is an epic, at once a personal, world-historical, and cosmic search for true human happiness. Khayyam composed it to be highly readable so that it can be read by all, continually, and today, before it is too late, like a prayer book or a rosary of pearls or ruby stones, since it was meant to be not only reflective but also generative of search for happiness. If you begin reading it, you must do so at least once to its end, so that in later readings any of its parts can be recalled amid the unitary architecture of its philosophical, religious, and scientific wisdom rendered as an astounding and most beautiful work of art. Khayyam was right; there is nothing on Earth like his Wine.
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