Omar Khayyam: The first full biography of the great mathematician, poet and persecuted thinker of the eleventh century

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CONTENTS

• Prologue – Four True Graveside Stories

1. The Fire Temples of Nishapur (1048–67)
2. The Libraries of Samarkand (1068–72)
3. The Throne Room of Bukhara (1072–73)
4. The Palaces of Isfahan (1073–77)
5. The Boy Triumphs (1077–79)
6. The Vizier Regrets (1079–84)
7. The Shah Applauds (1085–89)
8. The Assassin Stalks (1090–92)
9. The Queen Turns (1092–93)
10. The Pilgrim of Babel (1093–94)
11. The Recluse of Nishapur (1094–1108)
12. The Sage of Khorasan (1108–31)

• Epilogue – The Story of the Rubaiyat
• Appendix I – The Rubaiyat: A New Translation
• Appendix II – The FitzGerald Translation of 1859
• Appendix III – Omar the Greek
• Appendix IV – Khayyam’s Mathematics and Other Writings
• Principal Characters
• Family Tree of the Saljuq Royal House
• Map of the Saljuq Empire at the Time of Malik-Shah’s death
• Chronology
• Bibliography
• Notes
• Index