Omar Khayyám
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Omar Khayyám عمر خیام | |
|---|---|
 Portret van Omar Khayyam | |
| Gebore | 18 Mei 1048[1][2] |
| Sterf | 4 Desember 1131 (op 83)[1][2] Nishapur, Persië |
Hakim Ghiyās al-Dīn Abu al-Fath Omār ibn Ibrāhīm Khayyām Nishābūrī (Persies: غیاث الدین ابو الفتح عمر بن ابراهیم خیام نیشابوری) of Omar Khayyám (18 Mei 1048 Nishapur, (Iran) – 4 Desember 1131) was 'n Persiese digter, wiskundige, sterrekundige en Sufi-mistikus wat in Nishapur, Persië gebore is.
Hy is veral bekend in die weste vir sy agnostiese en skeptiese poësie nadat Edward Fitzgerald sy werke vertaal het. C.J. Langenhoven en Abraham Jonker het van sy gedigte in Afrikaans vertaal.
Verwysings[wysig | wysig bron]
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 (en) "Omar Khayyam (Persian poet and astronomer)". Encyclopædia Britannica. Besoek op 18 Junie 2016.
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 (en) Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Professor Mehdi Aminrazavi. “An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, Vol. 1: From Zoroaster to ‘Umar Khayyam”, I.B. Tauris in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2007.
Bronne[wysig | wysig bron]
- E.G. Browne. Literary History of Persia. (Four volumes, 2,256 pages, and 25 years in the writing). 1998. ISBN 0-7007-0406-X
- Jan Rypka, History of Iranian Literature. Reidel Publishing Company. 1968. ISBN 90-277-0143-1
Eksterne skakels[wysig | wysig bron]
Wikimedia Commons het meer media in die kategorie Omar Khayyám.- Werke deur Omar Khayyám by Project Gutenberg
- The Persian Poet (http://www.omar-khayyam.org) – Contains the translations by Edward FitzGerald and a biography.
- The Rubaiyat
- On Omar's solutions to cubic equations
- Khayyam, Umar. A biography by Professor Iraj Bashiri, University of Minnesota.
- O'Connor, John J; Edmund F. Robertson "Omar Khayyám". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
