Omar Khayyám
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| Omar Khayyám عمر خیام | |
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Portret van Omar Khayyam
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| Gebore | 18 Mei 1048[1][2] Nishapur, Persië |
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| Oorlede | 4 Desember 1131 (op 83)[1][2] Nishapur, Persië |
| Vakgebied | Wiskunde, sterrekunde, filosofie, poësie |
| Beïnvloed deur | Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, Al-Biruni, Avicenna, Alhazen |
| Invloed op | Fariduddin Attar, Ahmad Khani |
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.
Verwysings[wysig | wysig bron]
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 (en) “Omar Khayyam (Persian poet and astronomer)”. Encyclopædia Britannica. URL 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.
