New Khayyami Studies

Omar Khayyam’s Secret: Hermeneutics of the Robaiyat in Quantum Sociological Imagination: Book 3: Khayyami Astronomy: How Omar Khayyam’s Newly Discovered True Birth Date Horoscope Reveals the Origins of His Pen Name and Independently Confirms His Authorship of the Robaiyat — by Mohammad H. Tamdgidi
Khayyami Millennium

How Omar Khayyam’s True Dates of Birth and Passing (AD 1021-1123) Were Discovered and Reconfirmed in the Omar Khayyam’s Secret Series: Further Explaining and Demonstrating Swami Govinda Tirtha’s Errors in Using Khayyam’s Horoscope for the Purpose

November 13, 2025 Mohammad H. (Behrooz) Tamdgidi
The following essay by Mohammad H. Tamdgidi is the first chapter (pp. 89-138) of  the 12th and last book of his series Omar Khayyam’s Secret: Hermeneutics of the Robaiyat in Quantum Sociological Imagination (Okcir Press, [read more]
Front Cover - Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. - Omar Khayyam’s Secret: Hermeneutics of the Robaiyat in Quantum Sociological Imagination: Book 12: Khayyami Legacy: The Collected Works of Omar Khayyam (AD 1021-1123) Culminating in His Secretive 1000 Robaiyat Autobiography. With Forewords by Winston E. Langley and Jafar Aghayani Chavoshi
Colonialism

The Islamophobic and Islamophilic Colonialities of Edward FitzGerald’s “Rubaiyat”: Decolonizing How He World-Famously Distorted Omar Khayyam’s Robaiyat

June 19, 2025 Mohammad H. (Behrooz) Tamdgidi

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.

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