The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam
https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/09/24/the-rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/
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This Eastern European restaurant in Brighton is Mayor Mamdani’s go-to dining spot
New York politicians get hungry too, and they have go-to restaurants they’ll hit up when they need just…
#Europe #EU #AntonioReynoso #BrightonBeach #CityCouncilmembers #CouncilMember #electedofficials #European #MarkLevine #NYCHospitality #OmarKhayyam #zohranmamdani
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Clásico José María Vargas del 2000
EL GRAN SOL (Barclay Jet-Gran Amistad)
Conducido Douglas Valiente y presentado por Cesar Cachazo
Stud: Los Lara (Domingo Lara)⏲️122’4
🎤 Omar Khayyam
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Khayyam’s Philosophy Series: Nihilism in Khayyam’s Philosophy — A Pre-Modern Encounter with the Void
Khayyam works out a systematic nihilism — materialist, ontological, epistemological — eight centuries before the European tradition had a word for it. Compared with Gorgias, Hegesias, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Camus, his position is both the most thoroughgoing and the most paradoxical: the void is named honestly, and the wine is poured. -
Today's poem:
Excerpt from the Rubaiyat
- by Omar KhayyamWhat is the world? A caravanserai,
A pied pavilion of night and day;
A feast whereat a thousand Jamshids sat,
A couch whereon a thousand Bahrams lay. -
I Too Would Free Myself From Ceaseless Woe
The heavens whisper a confession into Khayyam's heart: they do not know fate's commands either. Every explanation for existence refers beyond itself to another force, until the chain folds back on itself and we find ourselves exactly where we started — facing uncertainty, with a cosmos that shares our bewilderment entirely.https://kamaustine.com/2026/06/29/i-too-would-free-myself-from-ceaseless-woe/
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When I moved to Mysore, I was chuffed to find this street. (It's name is misspelt on Google Maps.)
Attaching my favourite Rubá'í.
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A Millennium Before Taleb: Khayyam’s Epistemological Protocol and the Logic of the Black Swan
In eleventh-century Persia, Omar Khayyam formalised a strict epistemic sequence: clarify the name, establish existence, then investigate essence — and showed that violating this order makes knowledge impossible. Nine centuries later, Nassim Nicholas Taleb identified the same violated sequence as the logical root of Black Swan events. This article demonstrates the formal equivalence of both frameworks and argues that Black Swan vulnerability is not a feature of modern complexity, but a structural consequence of ignoring a protocol Khayyam had already written. -
Khayyam’s Philosophy Series: Khayyam and the Structure of Existential Thought
Across his scattered quatrains, Omar Khayyam repeatedly confronts the deepest questions of human existence: where we come from, why we are here, and what awaits beyond death. Rather than offering comforting answers, he exposes the limits of knowledge and the certainty of mortality. This essay explores the existential structure underlying Khayyam’s thought and the intellectual courage that defines it. -
Omar Khayyam, print from etching by Herbert Cole https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/12/25/omar-khayyam-print-from-etching-by-herbert-cole/ #hermeneuticon #iconomancy #omarKhayyam -
Khayyam’s Philosophy Series: On Knowing, Not-Knowing, and the Essence That Remains
Omar Khayyam, a unique thinker, merges mathematics with metaphysics, emphasizing certainty in numbers and humility in understanding existence. His quatrain reveals that after a lifetime of inquiry, true knowledge reflects the recognition of knowledge's limits. He aligns with ideas from Kürnberger and Rumi, each exploring human understanding across different traditions. -
I would not change the song the flute-girl sings
For all the diadems of weary kings,
His joys the Sultan shares with all the world,
His cares he keeps — a chain of glittering rings.Omar Khayyám (1048-1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer [عمر خیام]
Rubáiyát [رباعیات] [tr. Le Gallienne (1897), # 201Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/omar-khayyam/77973/
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But thou who settest in the way a snare,
With threats of hell for all who stumble there,
Almighty Spirit, whom the spheres obey,
Is mine the sin, or Thine the greater share?Omar Khayyám (1048-1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer [عمر خیام]
Rubáiyát [رباعیات], Bod. # 148 [tr. Roe (1906), # 73]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/omar-khayyam/77767/
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We dabble in the Qur’án now and then,
Read, and repent, yet fall from Grace again;
But in the goblet is engraved a text
That greets eternally the eyes of men.
قرآن که بهین کلام خوانند اورا
گه گاه نه بر دوام خوانند اورا
در خطِ پیاله آیتی روشن هست
کاندر همه جا مدام خوانند اوراOmar Khayyám (1048-1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer [عمر خیام]
Rubáiyát [رباعیات], Bod. # 6 [tr. Talbot (1908)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/omar-khayyam/77606/
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If I were God, I would not wait the years
To solve the mystery of human tears;
And, unambiguous, I would speak my will,
Nor hint it darkly to the dreaming seers.Omar Khayyám (1048-1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer [عمر خیام]
Rubáiyát [رباعیات ][tr. Le Gallienne (1897), # 116]Sourcing, notes: wist.info/omar-khayyam/77325/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #rubaiyat #omarkhayyam #divinewill #God #problemofevil #problemofsuffering #revelation #suffering #theodicy
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Nej, låt de lärde prata, och lägg dig ner där rosor doftar och solen ler.
Ty livet är kort, och endast ett är säkert: att vissna blommor aldrig blommar mer.
Omar Khayyám
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Go to! Cast dust on those deaf skies, who spurn
Thy orisons and bootless prayers, and learn
To quaff the cup, and hover round the fair;
Of all who go, did ever one return?Omar Khayyám (1048-1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer [عمر خیام]
Rubáiyát [رباعیات], Bod. # 97 [tr. Whinfield (1883), # 267]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/omar-khayyam/77193/
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Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who
Before us pass’d the door of Darkness through
Not one returns to tell us of the Road,
Which to discover we must travel too.Omar Khayyám (1048-1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer [عمر خیام]
Rubáiyát [رباعیات], Fitz. # 67 [tr. FitzGerald, 2nd ed. (1868)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/omar-khayyam/76797/
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In 451 AH (1073 AD), the great Iranian astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyam dramatically improved upon the existing Iranian solar calendar, which was originally worked out by Zoroastrians with influence from Egypt. Khayyam's initial proposal depended on careful observation, but since that wasn't practical, he put forward an algorithmic calendar.
https://www.famousscientists.org/omar-khayyam/
https://iranchamber.com/literature/khayyam/khayyam.php
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Meanwhile in Iran, in the 4th century AH, the great #OmarKhayyam was tasked with improving the calendar. The end result was the Solar Hijri calendar, which is still used today, and is tied to the time of the norhtward equinox as observed in Tehran. Some Zoroastrians have started doing the same thing, but others have rejected it on the grounds that the practice is Muslim (when it very explicitly is not).
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Canadian Mint unveils new coins featuring portrait of King Charles
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/first-pictures-of-new-canadian-coins-king-charlesWhen I was a boy, I'd sometimes find coins with the head of #GeorgeVI. Now a third sovereign's head appears on Canadian coins I will use.
"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."#Rubaiyat #OmarKhayyam #EdwardFitzGerald
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The result was that the existing Zoroastrian calendar, of 365 days, was permitted to be used for exclusively secular purposes, while holidays and religious observances would be set by the Lunar Hijri calendar. Iranian Zoroastrians eventually stopped adding extra months, but Indian Zoroastrians did it once more.
Fast forward to 457 AH, and Malik-Shah entrusts the great scholar, astronomer, and mathematician #OmarKhayyam with improving the calendar.
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#SaudiArabia used the #LunarHijriCalendar for all official purposes until the 1950s. At some point, it was decided to switch to a #SolarCalendar to reduce the frequency of monthly salary payments, thus saving the government money.
Arabia adopted the Gregorian calendar, which is used throughout the world, partly because it would make #commerce easier. #OmarKhayyam had invented better calendars, but money talks and Arabians are apparently OK with Christians than the wrong type of Muslims.
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GHIYATH ALDIN ABU L FATH OMAR IBN IBRAHIM JAYYAM NISHABURÍ (18 de mayo de 1048 - 4 de diciembre de 1131) #OmarKhayyam
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RUBÁIYÁT
Cuando hayamos muerto,
no habrá ya rosas ni cipreses,
ni labios rojos ni vino perfumado;
tampoco habrá ni penas ni alegrías,
ni auroras ni crepúsculos.El universo se aniquilará,
puesto que su realidad depende
tan sólo
de nuestro pensamiento. -
GHIYATH ALDIN ABU L FATH OMAR IBN IBRAHIM JAYYAM NISHABURÍ (18 de mayo de 1048 - 4 de diciembre de 1131) #OmarKhayyam
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#OmarKhayyam #Rubaiyats #Poesie
Si ces demeurés de "fous de Dieu" avaient pu lire ces vers du 11ème siècle de Omar Khayyam, favori du Sultan et Commandeur des Croyants MalikShah, ils auraient peut-être troqué la kalach pour la coupe, toujours pleine.
A tout prendre, ce sera les conseils d'un philosophe et mathématicien, plutôt que ceux d'un...d'un autre."Toi qui ne bois pas de vin, ne blâme pas pour cela les
ivrognes
car je suis prêt, moi, à renoncer à Dieu, s'il m'ordonne
de renoncer
au vin. Tu te glorifies de ne point boire de vin, mais cette
sied mal
à qui comment des actes cent fois plus répréhensibles
que l'ivrognerie !" -
#Poesie #Quatrains #Rubaiyats #OmarKhayyam
"Mon tour d'existence s'est écoulé en quelques jours.
Il est passé comme passe le vent du désert. Aussi
tant qu'il me restera un souffle de vie, il y a deux jours
dont je ne m'inquiéterai jamais,
c'est le jour qui n'est pas venu et celui qui est passé."- Omar Khayyam -
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#OmarKhayyam #robbayates #poesiearabe #Poesie
Juste les derniers vers d'un robbayat du grand Omar Khayyam, 11è/12è s. :
"Bois du vin , ami, car le monde c'est du vent."
