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EDWARD FITZGERALD,
MAR KHAYYAM,
Nizam-ul-mulk,
Omar Khayyam,
Persian Literature,
Persian mathematician,
Persian poet,
philosopher of Khorasan,
Rubaiyat,
Seljouk dynasty,
the Tent-maker
FAMOUS POET
OMAR KHAYYAM, a Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer, was born at Nishapur, in Khorasan, about A.D. 1050 and died about 1125. Khayyam means “the Tent-maker,” and it is probable that Omar maintained himself by the craft until the sun of fortune rose for him. He was in youth a pupil of the most famous [...]
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It’s Halloween, and Anne Rice has a new book — a memoir in fact — that’s climbing best-seller lists. Everything is normal, then. Normal if it were 1994 — the height of Rice’s megaselling fame as a queen of Southern Gothic pulp.
For those who haven’t been paying attention lately to vampire lit, America’s most famous [...]
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