The Authentic Rubaiyyat - Hardcover

Omar Khayaam; Translated By Syed Omar Ali-Shah

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ISBN 10: 3938123095 ISBN 13: 9783938123096

Publisher: Peacock Verlag, 2008

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In his world-famous collection of quatrains, the RUBAIYYAT, Omar Khayaan celebrates the feelings of sorrow and joy that we go through when we put our faith in the Divine Spirit and leave the 'reality' of earthly priorities behind us. In images of drunkenness, his verses speak of mystic union with the Divine Self. The quatrains were translated into the English in 1859 by E. Fitzgerald, making them available to Europeans for the first time. The nineteenth century reader was given a rendering which portrayed a wine-inspired poet, a sceptical and fun-loving freethinker, without fully bringing out the mystical aspects of the work. This led to misinterpretations. 'The Rubaiyyat is a work of the Sufi tradition. Within it we can only discover that which we are capable of discovering. 'Wine' is here a metaphor for love and 'drunkenness' for spiritual ecstasy. His work is more spiritual than hedonistic; The reader should take up these verses and see in them what he can see.' Prof. Leonard Lewin, University of Colorado

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Syed Omar AIi-Shah s translation of the Rubaiyyat of Omor Khayaom likewise demonstrated the sufic content of the Rubaiyyat. Written in co-operation with Robert Graves, the Rubaiyyat translation caused great controversy, stimulated by the entrenched FitzOmar lobby who had made Kh~y~m their idol as a nihilistic materialist, and much worse.

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