KPFA Special The History Behind The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Guest: Juan Cole is a public intellectual, prominent blogger and essayist, and the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the translator of The Rub\xe1iy\xe1t of Omar Khayyam: A New Translation from the Persian.\nOmar Khayyam (1048 \u2013 1131) was a Persian astronomer and mathematician born in Nishapur in northeastern Iran who lived and worked at the courts of the Seljuk dynasty. Modern scholars agree that there is very little (if any) of the collected work of poetry know as the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam that can be certainly attributed to the historical figure. A tradition of attribution grew up in the centuries after Khayyam\u2019s death which culminated in Edward Fitzgerald\u2019s translation in the 19th Century.\nThe post KPFA Special \u2013 The History Behind The Rub\xe1iy\xe1t of Omar Khayyam appeared first on KPFA.