Ecclesiastes And Omar Khayyam A Note for the Spiritual Temper of Our Time

Genung, John Franklin

Published by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York, 1901

About this Item

This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Fair dust jacket. The book covers are bonded leather with embossed green, blue and gilt lettering and decorations. The dust jacket is nearly in pieces with noticeable toning to the flap joints and spine, along with edge tears, nicks and chips missing. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name and address on the front endpaper. "The earliest allusion to Omar Khayyam's poetry is from the historian Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani, a younger contemporary of Khayyam, who explicitly identifies him as both a poet and a scientist (Kharidat al-qasr, 1174). : 35 One of the earliest specimens of Omar Khayyam's Rubiyat is from Fakhr al-Din Razi. In his work Al-tanbih ala ba d asrar al-maw dat fi l-Qur an (ca. 1160) , he quotes one of his poems (corresponding to quatrain LXII of FitzGerald's first edition). Daya in his writings (Mirsad al- Ibad, ca. 1230) quotes two quatrains, one of which is the same as the one already reported by Razi. An additional quatrain is quoted by the historian Juvayni (Tarikh-i Jahangushay, ca. 1226-1283).".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ecclesiastes And Omar Khayyam A Note for the Spiritual Temper of Our Time
• Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York
• Publication Date: 1901
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair