Wine of Wisdom

Author Mehdi Aminrazavi is Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Co-Director of the Center for Asian Studies at Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, Virginia, US.

• Acknowledgements viIntroduction 11. Khayyam’s Life and Works 182. Reconstructing a Tarnished Image: Omar Khayyam 40According to his Contemporaries and Biographers3. Khayyam within the Intellectual Context of his Time 674. The Ruba‘iyyat 905. Khayyam and Sufism 1346. Khayyam’s Philosophical Thought 1577. Khayyam the Scientist 1888. Khayyam in the West 204Epilogue 278Appendix A: Translations of the Philosophical Treatises 283Appendix B: The Ruba‘iyyat – Edward FitzGerald’s 328TranslationAppendix C: Arabic Poems of Omar Khayyam 347Notes 349Bibliography 378Index 387

"Loved by the free-spirited, hated by his orthodox peers; a stranger in both his homeland and the West : the complexities and contradictions surrounding the life of Omar Khayyam are reconstructed for the first time in this authoritative new biography."