Omar KhayyamTony Briggs, Edward FitzGerald, A. D. P. Briggs
Omar Khayyam
by Tony Briggs, Edward FitzGerald, A. D. P. Briggs · first published 2009
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…jihadist textbooks paid for by the U.S." And nobody should pretend all this doesn't exist. Especially not based on what was centuries ago: we have to take the stance to what is happening now. Anyway, Omar Khayyam was a fantastic poet. Absolutely joy to read, but don't expect that many of those who are religious today would share his views.
on “What This Medieval Wine Jug Can Tell Us About Islam” ↗Omar Khayyam Great quote. But you probably know, that the English translation is more inspired by Omar, and much of what you enjoyed was the work of FitzGerald. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/516526...…
on “Smartphone cradle used to cheat “10k steps/day” health insurance discounts” ↗…either "noble savage" or "inscrutable deceitful liar". This is incorrect and historically uninformed. To give one example, the same year, 1859, saw Edward Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayyam, which electrified Victorian England with its meditations on divine inscrutability. A few years earlier, Carlyle had written "The Hero As Prophet", a positive evaluation of Mohammed (but certainly not…
on “We Politely Insist: Your LLM Must Learn the Persian Art of Taarof” ↗