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The Islamophobic and Islamophilic Colonialities of Edward FitzGerald’s “Rubaiyat”

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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Omar Khayyam’s Pen Name Origins Found, His Authorship of A 1000-Robaiyat Divan Independently Confirmed

April 23, 2021 Mohammad H. (Behrooz) Tamdgidi

As reported in Book 3 of the series Omar Khayyam’s Secret, subtitled Khayyami Astronomy, Omar Khayyam’s ‘tent-maker’ pen name originated in the master astronomer, philosopher, mathematician, and poet’s horoscope heavens. Discovery of a long-neglected signature Khayyami quatrain [read more]

تاريخ واقعى تولد و درگذشت عمر خیام در ١٠٢ سالگى (٥١٧-٤١٢ ﻫ ق يا ٥٠٢-٤٠٠ ﻫ ش يا ١١٢٣-١٠٢١ م) كشف و بازتأييد شد، هزاره تولد و نهمين سده درگذشت او قريب الوقوع اند

Centenarian Omar Khayyam’s True Dates of Birth and Death Discovered (AD 1021-1123), His Birth Millennium and Ninth Centennial of Passing Are Imminent and Forthcoming

April 23, 2021 Mohammad H. (Behrooz) Tamdgidi

As reported in Book 2 of the series Omar Khayyam’s Secret, subtitled Khayyami Millennium, Khayyam’s birth occurred on June 10, AD 1021, at Neyshabour’s Sunrise, and the closing of the circle of his coming and going was closed at [read more]

راز عمر خيام نيز با حل معماى كوانتوم (ذره-موج) در فراجامعه شناسى كشف شد

Omar Khayyam’s Secret Also Unveiled by Unriddling the Quantum Enigma in Transdisciplinary Sociology

April 23, 2021 Mohammad H. (Behrooz) Tamdgidi

OKCIR’s twelve-book series Omar Khayyam’s Secret on Robaiyat hermeneutics in quantum sociological imagination soon debuts with Book 1, launching New Khayyami Studies. Building on his recent Unriddling the Quantum Enigma (2020), in this new series transdisciplinary [read more]