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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
In Our Time
Oma Kaam, in His Lifetime, Was an Astronomer and a Mathematician
Oma kaam was an astronomer and a mathematician. He didn't really achieve any fame as a poet until very much later. And he lived therefore the whole of his life in a period where iran was dominated by the selduc turks, who just was start their invasions of the eastern islamic world. The salduks were strongly suni turks, as orthodox suniTurk moslems. This together with a sort ofa dislike of speculation, i would say, and philosophy, which had always been regarded with some scepticism anyway, a and also a growth of soofy thought. So these two things are all part of the background.
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