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In the twelve-book series, Omar Khayyam’s Secret: Hermeneutics of the Robaiyat in Quantum Sociological Imagination, the transdisciplinary sociologist Mohammad H. Tamdgidi shares the results of his decades-long research on Omar Khayyam, the enigmatic 11th/12th centuries Persian Muslim sage, philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, physician, writer, and poet from Neyshabour, Iran, whose life and works still remain behind a veil of deep mystery. Tamdgidi’s purpose has been to find definitive answers to the many puzzles still surrounding Khayyam, especially regarding the existence, nature, and purpose of the Robaiyat in his life and works. To explore the questions posed, he advances a new hermeneutic method of textual analysis, informed by what he calls the quantum sociological imagination, to gather and study all the attributed philosophical, religious, scientific, and literary writings of Khayyam.

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Omar Khayyam’s Secret: Hermeneutics of the Robaiyat in Quantum Sociological Imagination — Complete Books 1-12 Set

Author: Mohammad H. Tamdgidi

Where to Purchase the Complete Omar Khayyam’s Secret Series:

The complete Omar Khayyam’s Secret series (Books 1-12, 2021-2025)) can be ordered with one payment from the Okcir Store on this page, in three format options: Hardcover, Softcover, and PDF. The EPUB editions of the same can be purchased individually on online bookstores worldwide.

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Reviews

“… a masterpiece in Omar Khayyam studies …” —  Jafar Aghayani Chavoshi (Ph.D., University of Paris, 1997), Professor of Philosophy of Science at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, specializing in Philosophy, Epistemology, and History of Mathematics and Science, and in Omar Khayyam Studies; From his Foreword to the last book of the Omar Khayyam’s Secret series

“Tamdgidi, having taken his readers through the first eleven books of his Omar Khayyam’s Secret series, in book twelve — consistent with good teaching — offers an overview of what had already been covered by the series, as he does in each of its successive books. He does more. He discusses the scientific requirements for the study of Khayyam’s biography; and then, he proceeds to depict the new findings of the series that make possible ‘a textually and historically more reliable biography for Khayyam.’ Both, with distinction, he has achieved. … The series is a most admirable example of teaching at its best. Tamdgidi is but an expert guide in a journey of joint learning and teaching; nowhere, except in the concluding book, including his notes on the biography of Omar Khayyam, is it conclusory. He patiently anticipates and works with the reader to grapple with issues, so there are common discoveries. At times, he and his readers are detectives, with moments of sudden insights, realizations, and inspiration. Indeed, for this reader, who was exposed at an early age to Khayyam, through the work of Edward FitzGerald, encountering this series was like the astronauts who experienced seeing the Earth for the first time from outer space. It was nothing I could have imagined, from prior experience. … Every college library should at least secure a copy of the last synoptic volume of the series; and every research library should have the entire series as one of its prized acquisitions and holdings. The claim or assertion respecting the likely longevity of the series and its importance to libraries (and, by implication, scholars) is not made lightly, and it is in no way an exaggeration. A study of its methodology, its findings, the significance of those findings for the universe of learning, of the skills, dedication, and sacrifices the author brought to bear on the work, and of the approach observed to help readers grapple with and understand what is being disclosed, attests a rich body of corroborating testimony to the assertion.” —  Winston E. Langley, Professor Emeritus of Political Science & International Relations, Senior Fellow at the McCormack Graduate School for Policy & Global Studies, and a former Provost (2008-2017) of the University of Massachusetts Boston; From his Foreword to the last book of the Omar Khayyam’s Secret series


Books 1-12 of the Omar Khayyam’s Secret Series: Hermeneutics of the Robaiyat in Quantum Sociological Imagination (2021-2025), by Mohammad H. Tamdgidi

Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge (ISSN: 1540-5699). Volumes XIV-XXV, 2021-2025, Monograph Series: Tayyebeh Series in East-West Research and Translation

Published by: Okcir Press (an imprint of Ahead Publishing House) • Belmont, Massachusetts

First Editions: 2021-2025, published in celebration of Omar Khayyam’s True Birth Date Millennium (AD 1021) and 9th Centennial of his Passing (AD 1123)

6×9 inches • Some series’ books include figures and illustrations, references, and index

The following are the links to individual pages of the books of the series (in reverse order):


About the Author

Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, Ph.D., is the founding director and editor of OKCIR: Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia, Mysticism, and Science (Utopystics) and its journal, Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge (ISSN: 1540-5699), which have served since 2002 to frame his independent research, pedagogical, and publishing initiatives. He is a former associate professor of sociology specializing in social theory at UMass Boston and has taught sociology at SUNY-Binghamton and SUNY-Oneonta.

Besides his 12-book series Omar Khayyam’s Secret: Hermeneutics of the Robaiyat in Quantum Sociological Imagination (2021-2025, Okcir Press), Tamdgidi has previously authored Liberating Sociology: From Newtonian Toward Quantum Imaginations: Volume 1: Unriddling the Quantum Enigma (2020, Okcir Press), Gurdjieff and Hypnosis: A Hermeneutic Study (2009, Palgrave Macmillan), and Advancing Utopistics: The Three Component Parts and Errors of Marxism (2007, Routledge/Paradigm). He has published numerous peer reviewed articles and chapters and edited more than thirty journal issues.

Tamdgidi holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in sociology in conjunction with a graduate certificate in Middle Eastern studies from Binghamton University (SUNY). He received his B.A. in architecture from U.C. Berkeley, following enrollment as an undergraduate student of civil engineering in the Technical College of the University of Tehran, Iran.

His areas of scholarly and practical interest are the sociology of self-knowledge, human architecture, and utopystics-three fields of inquiry he invented in his doctoral studies and has since pursued as respectively intertwined theoretical, methodological and applied fields of inquiry altogether contributing to what he calls the quantum sociological imagination. His research, teaching, and publications have been framed by an interest in understanding how world-historical social structures and personal selves constitute one another. This line of inquiry has itself been a result of his longstanding interest in understanding the underlying causes of failures of the world’s utopian, mystical, and scientific movements in bringing about a just global society.


About the Authors of Forewords to Book 12 of the Series

Winston E. Langley is Professor Emeritus of Political Science & International Relations, Senior Fellow at the McCormack Graduate School for Policy & Global Studies, and a former Provost (2008-2017) of the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Boston.

Jafar Aghayani Chavoshi (Ph.D. and M.A. in Epistemology and History of Science and Mathematics, University of Paris, 1997) is Professor of Philosophy of Science at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran.


NEW IN OKCIR'S MONOGRAPH SERIES
Front and Back COVER: Khayyam’s Tent: A Secretive Autobiography: 1000 Bittersweet Robaiyat Sips from His Tavern of Happiness - OMAR KHAYYAM - Logically Re-Sewn and Translated in Verse by Mohammad H. Tamdgidi
Front and Back 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
Omar Khayyam's Secret Series Books 1-12 Cover, Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. Omar Khayyam’s Secret: Hermeneutics of the Robaiyat in Quantum Sociological Imagination