Articles by Mohammad H. (Behrooz) Tamdgidi
Western Neocolonial Designs for Iran in A Historical Sociological Imagination
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.
انتشار خيمه خيام شامل حسب حال راز آميز او: بازدوزى منطقى و ترجمه منظوم هزار رباعى ميكدۀ سعادتش بر اساس روش هستى شناسى خود او
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.
Omar Khayyam’s Tent: His Autobiography of 1000 Bittersweet Robaiyat Wine Sips Published on June 10, His True Birthday
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.
OKCIR Publication Press Release: Khayyami Legacy: Book 12 of the 12-Book Omar Khayyam’s Secret Series
The last book of the series forthcoming soon on June 10, 2025, his true birthday anniversary, titled Khayyami Legacy: The Collected Works of Omar Khayyam (AD 1021-1123) Culminating in His Secretive 1000 Robaiyat Autobiography, condenses the series and its findings in a 1200-page volume. This is the first time since Khayyam’s passing that all his works have been compiled in one series and studied integratively. Book 12 includes two forewords, one by Winston E. Langley, Professor Emeritus and former Provost of UMass Boston, and another by Jafar Aghayani Chavoshi, Professor of Philosophy of Science at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, specializing in Epistemology and History of Mathematics and Science, and Khayyam Studies.
انتشار «میراث خیامی»: آخرین کتاب مجموعه ١٢ جلدى «راز عمر خیام » شامل کلّيات آثار او و فشردۀ يافته هاى مجموعه خواهد بود
خيمۀ حكمت هزار رباعى عمر خيام در نظم و ترجمه نوين بازدوزى شد: کتابهای ٨ تا ١١ مجموعه ١٢ جلدى دربارۀ راز او انتشار يافت
OKCIR Publication Press Release: Khayyami Robaiyat: Books 8-11 of the 12-Book Omar Khayyam’s Secret Series
The Somerton Man Carl Webb’s WWII Death Poems Staged in His Eternal Shadow-Show “Tamám Shud”
In this new and updated 2024 OKCIR Report, sociologist Mohammad H. Tamdgidi reports how his 2021 reported solution to deciphering the Somerton Man code as a suicide note anticipated and can more reliably prove the still unconfirmed (and, as proposed based on procedurally flawed mask-hair DNA analyses, not confirmable) 2022 unofficial identification of his identity as Carl Webb, break the impasse in solving the rest of the case to explain the mystery of his end-of-life story, and even shed light on another death mystery.