OMAR KHAYYAM?S SECRET IBD

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Omar KhayyamâÇÖs Secret: Hermeneutics of the Robaiyat in Quantum Sociological Imaginationáis a twelve-book series of which this book is the second volume, subtitledáKhayyami Millennium: Reporting the Discovery and the Reconfirmation of the True Dates of Birth and Passing of Omar Khayyam (AD 1021-1123). Each book is independently readable, although it will be best understood as a part of the whole series.áIn the overall series, the transdisciplinary sociologist Mohammad H. Tamdgidi shares the results of his decades-long research on Omar Khayyam, the enigmatic 11th/12th centuries Persian Muslim sage, philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, physician, writer, and poet from Neyshabour, Iran, whose life and works still remain behind a veil of deep mystery. TamdgidiâÇÖs purpose has been to find definitive answers to the many puzzles still surrounding Khayyam, especially regarding the existence, nature, and purpose of the Robaiyat in his life and works. To explore the questions posed, he advances a new hermeneutic method of textual analysis, informed by what he calls the quantum sociological imagination, to gather and study all the attributed philosophical, religious, scientific, and literary writings of Khayyam.ááIn this second book of the series, Tamdgidi lays down an essential foundation for the series by revisiting the unresolved questions surrounding the dates of birth and passing of Omar Khayyam. Critically reexamining the manner in which Omar KhayyamâÇÖs birth horoscope as reported in Zahireddin Abolhassan BeyhaqiâÇÖsáTatemmat Sewan al-Hekmatá(Supplement to the Chest of Wisdom) was used by SwÄümi Govinda TÄ«rtha in hisáThe Nectar of Grace: Omar KhayyamâÇÖs Life and Worksá(1941) to determine KhayyamâÇÖs birth date, Tamdgidi uncovers a number of serious internal inconsistencies and factual inaccuracies that prevented TÄ«rtha (and, since then, other scholars more or less taking for granted his results) from arriving at a reliable date for KhayyamâÇÖs birth, hurling Khayyami studies into decades of confusion regarding KhayyamâÇÖs life and works.áTamdgidi then shares in the book the detailed account of his own discovery of KhayyamâÇÖs true date of birth for the first time, a finding that eluded Khayyami studies for centuries and is bound to revolutionize the studies for decades to come.ááTamdgidi then turns his attention to the task of definitively establishing the true date of passing of Omar Khayyam. Conducting an in-depth, superposed analysis of BeyhaqiâÇÖsáTatemmat Sewan el-Hekmat (Supplement to the Chest of Wisdom), Abdorrahman KhazeniâÇÖsáMizan ol-Hekmat (Balance of Wisdom), Nezami ArouziâÇÖsáChahar Maqaleh (Four Discourses), and Yar Ahmad Rashidi TabriziâÇÖsáTarabkhaneh (House of Joy), amid other relevant texts, he succeeds in firmly reconfirming and further discovering, in a textually reliable way, not only the year, the season, the month, and the day, but even the most likely time of day at which the poet mathematician, astronomer, and calendar reformer died as a solar centenarian, completing his 102nd solar year age.áStrange is that these discoveries are made just in time as we approach the first solar millennium of Omar KhayyamâÇÖs birth date on June 10, AD 1021, at sunrise of Neyshabour, Iran, and the ninth solar centennial of his passing on June 10, AD 1123, on the eve also of his birthday, closing the circle of his lifeâÇÖs 'coming and going.'