Rubaiyat

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.