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Omar Khayyam

Don’t Hesitate to Raise a wine Glass High: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Juan Cole 06/04/2020

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For the earliest collection of verse attributed to Omar Khayyam see my just-published The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: A New Translation from the Persian

(NB: the poem above isn’t in this collection– there are lots of such anthologies, and Whinfield favored the late Indian manuscripts.)

Here is what novelist Michael Chabon said about my new book:

    “’To read Juan Cole’s deft, plain-spoken translation of the Rubáiyát is to find companionship, to rejoin a thousand-year human conversation about how to endure, enjoy, and find a fleeting beauty in everlastingly dire times. The lucid, cogent and mind-opening Epilogue is a kind of grace, a gift freely given, from one of our most astonishing and generous intellects.’”

    ― Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Moonglow (2017)

Order from

Bloomsbury (IB Tauris)

or Barnes and Noble, who will ship or do curbside delivery.

or Amazon

Best of all to order it from your local bookstore if they can provide it to you; make the call.

Here is what Iranian-American novelist Porochista Khakpour is saying:

“’Omar Khayyam is a Persian treasure and Juan Cole’s new translation brings him anew to Western audiences who for centuries have been both delighted and educated by this medieval sage! Reading The Rubáiyát is a thrill – you feel the echoes of the 12th century seamlessly into our 21st, as this is a holy book of wisdom and magic. In another perilous era for Iranians, it’s wonderful to see this enchanting volume make its way through the world yet again!’” ―Porochista Khakpour, novelist, essayist and author of Brown Album (2020)

Many thanks to her for the kind words!

Filed Under: Omar Khayyam, poetry

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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