The Cult of Khayyām Rubā iyāt

• Published in: Matn/pizhūhī-i adabī (Online) Vol. 11; no. 33; pp. 52 - 78
• Main Author: ahmad tamimdari
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Persian
• Published: Allameh Tabataba'i University Press 01-11-2007
• Subjects: aesthetics; fitzgerald; khayyām; mysticism; romanticism; rubā iyāt
• ISSN: 2251-7138; 2476-6186
• DOI: 10.22054/ltr.2007.6434

Khayyām, Philosopher and mathematician, his Rubā iyāt developed in the west and changed into a school, cult or religion and confronted many opponents and Proponents. The cult of Rubā iyāt and other Persian Sufi Poems maked the Romanticism Preva- lent. Fitzgerald (1809-1883) Considered as the first translator of Khayyāms Rubā‘iyāt an his version followed from the late 19 th Century the western scholars. Research into Khayyāms work and translation of it, are continuing. Thanks to the translators his Rubā iyāt have found their place among the treasures of world literature. During the time some disagreements appeared among the western Scholars about the Philosophical Complexity in Khayyāms poem. After prevalence of Rubā iyāt, in Eu- ropian Countries gradually It entered to America and a few Scholars as Lang Fellow, Lowell and Melville, expressed Clearly their interest to Rubā iyāt.McCarthy has said about the Khayyām: above his head there is a halo of Knowledge, but some groups sus- pend his hair the grapevine leaves. Some Societies were formed to name of Khayyām in European lands and his testament was translated and published in there (1907). In the East and west he had always been honored as an all-round Scholar, a mathematician, astronomer, Physicist, Philosopher, poet and Spiritual. The first mystical account on Rubā‘iyāt was that of French translator Nicolas, and it becam a pattern for the strange English translation. Finally in life or art, what was the reason of Rubā iyāt success? Which was better? What Fitzgerald gave to the life, or gave to the art?Answer to these question is duty of next generation, at the time that art becomes independent without its taking impersion of art characteristics related to the last nineteenth century.