mohammad afshinvafaie
Abstract
There is not much accurate information about Khayyam. It genuinely seems that either his poetry had not been systematically collected, or if it were, no copy has survived. The oldest collection of Rubaiyat (quatrains) attributed to Khayyam, was compiled in the second half of the 9th century AH, and many ...
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There is not much accurate information about Khayyam. It genuinely seems that either his poetry had not been systematically collected, or if it were, no copy has survived. The oldest collection of Rubaiyat (quatrains) attributed to Khayyam, was compiled in the second half of the 9th century AH, and many of the quatrains that are preserved in it definitely do not belong to Khayyam. We must therefore, look to other sources to find his original verse. Although researchers have done much to discover his remaining quatrains, individual verses by and information about him remain scattered in various manuscripts. This paper presents newly discovered and reliable historical information about Khayyam. The focus of the present study are two quatrains of Khayyam that elegize the great theologian, al-Ghazzali. In addition to discussing Khayyam and Ghazzali’s relationship, the history of elegies that are in quatrain form are also discussed.
