Description:
In this 9th of his 12-book "Omar Khayyam's Secret" series, M. H. Tamdgidi offers Part 2 of a 3-part set of 1000 Khayyami quatrains with his new English verse translations, transliterations, indices, & comments for each.
Brief description: Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, Ph.D., is the founding director and editor of OKCIR: Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia, Mysticism, and Science (Utopystics) and its journal, Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge (ISSN: 1540-5699), which have served since 2002 to frame his independent research, pedagogical, and publishing initiatives. Besides his currently in progress work published in the 12-book series Omar Khayyam's Secret: Hermeneutics of the Robaiyat in Quantum Sociological Imagination (Okcir Press), he has previously authored Liberating Sociology: From Newtonian Toward Quantum Imaginations: Volume 1: Unriddling the Quantum Enigma (Okcir Press), Advancing Utopistics: The Three Component Parts and Errors of Marxism (Routledge/Paradigm) and Gurdjieff and Hypnosis: A Hermeneutic Study (Palgrave Macmillan). Tamdgidi has published numerous peer reviewed articles and chapters and edited more than thirty journal issues. He is a former associate professor of sociology specializing in social theory at UMass Boston and has taught sociology at SUNY-Binghamton and SUNY-Oneonta.
Review Quotes:
"... a masterpiece in Omar Khayyam studies ..." -- Jafar Aghayani Chavoshi (Ph.D., University of Paris, 1997), Professor of Philosophy of Science at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, specializing in Philosophy, Epistemology, and History of Mathematics and Science, and in Omar Khayyam Studies; From his Foreword to the last book of the Omar Khayyam's Secret series
"The nature and purposes of the Robaiyat -- and here, Tamdgidi's offering in his Omar Khayyam's Secret series of a translated tri-partite and then, integrated, version of this poem (this epic) is of utmost importance -- especially allow for readers' interpretations which will be part of that thousand years (earlier referred to) discussion and interpretation. ... The Robaiyat is also an oracle, a medium through which advice and prophecy are given. Khayyam believed that within each of us are universal and multivalent bonds, part of a unified, vital and vitalizing universe, which urges the cultivating of humanity through critical self-examination, scientific skepticism, the ideal of moral responsibility implicit in global (human) citizenship, and development of the narrative imagination. (Martha Nussbaum in her Cultivating Humanity touches on this, but within the confines of Western classics and partly Newtonian practices.) His warning, his prophecy, is that unless we embody the dynamic unity (and its multivalent values, meanings, and other properties), rejecting the divisive, enfeebling separated and separating parts (be they individuals, nations, social classes, races, birth, gender, balance of power instead of the UN, for example), we are bound for destruction. Climate change, weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, and the abuse of one deemed 'stranger' are inviting of our collective peril." -- Winston E. Langley, Professor Emeritus of Political Science & International Relations, Senior Fellow at the McCormack Graduate School for Policy & Global Studies, and a former Provost (2008-2017) of the University of Massachusetts Boston; From his Foreword to the last book of the Omar Khayyam's Secret series