Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat


	Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat

celestialdancer

9-30-2009 7:16 AM

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bliss, dance, omar khayyam - rubaiyat, philosophy, poetry, sufi, sufi dervishes

celestialdancer says:

Found the video first and remembered the book of poetry I had many years ago. I have a natural fascination for the sufi dancers. Children dance like this all the time and whilst mainstream Islam may not have a great name the Sufis have always felt "wondrous" to me.

And if you have ever tried dancing like this - I totally understand why they do it!!! It's BLISS creating on a "feeling level".

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9-30-2009 7:33 AM

celestialdancer

the last bit of the clip is the best.... once his/her skirts lift floating upwards the video gets surreal - utterly beautiful!!!

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  <P>Date: 1048 CE
Place: Nishapur, Persia (Iran)</p> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<P><STRONG>Name:</STRONG></p> <BLOCKQUOTE>
  <I><B><FONT size="6"></FONT></B></I><P><I><B><FONT size="6"></FONT><FONT size="3">A</FONT></B><FONT size="3"></FONT></I><FONT size="3">bu ol-Fath ebn-Ebrahim 'Omar
  ol-Khayyami of Nishapur </FONT></p> <P><FONT size="3">Khayyam means "<EM><STRONG>tent maker</STRONG></EM>"</FONT></p> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<P><STRONG>Work:</STRONG></p> <BLOCKQUOTE>
  <P>Mathematician
Scientist
Astronomer
Philosopher
Poet</p> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<P><STRONG>Major Contributions:</STRONG></p> </FONT><TABLE width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD width="42" valign="baseline"><IMG width="15" hspace="13" height="15" alt="bullet" src="http://www.okonlife.com/life/../_themes/poetic/poebul1a.gif" /></TD><TD width="100%" valign="top"><FONT face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times">Jalali Calendar (more accurate than the Julian, and almost as accurate as the Gregorian
    intercalation system)</FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD width="42" valign="baseline"><IMG width="15" hspace="13" height="15" alt="bullet" src="http://www.okonlife.com/life/../_themes/poetic/poebul1a.gif" /></TD><TD width="100%" valign="top"><FONT face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times">Contributions to Algebra (geometric solution of cubic equations)</FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD width="42" valign="baseline"><IMG width="15" hspace="13" height="15" alt="bullet" src="http://www.okonlife.com/life/../_themes/poetic/poebul1a.gif" /></TD><TD width="100%" valign="top"><FONT face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times">Astronomical tables</FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD width="42" valign="baseline"><IMG width="15" hspace="13" height="15" alt="bullet" src="http://www.okonlife.com/life/../_themes/poetic/poebul1a.gif" /></TD><TD width="100%" valign="top"><FONT face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times">And the Rubaiyat</FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><FONT face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times">
</FONT><P><FONT face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"><STRONG>Death: </STRONG></FONT></p> <BLOCKQUOTE>
<FONT face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times">  </FONT><P><FONT face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times">Date:  1123 CE
Place: Nishapur, Persia (Iran)</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.okonlife.com/poems/index.htm" href="http://www.okonlife.com/poems/index.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.okonlife.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.okonlife.com/poems/index.htm"><FONT face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"><IMG width="250" hspace="10" height="369" align="right" src="http://www.okonlife.com/poems/../images/saghism.jpg" />Depending
on the sources of reference that one chooses, Omar Khayyam is believed to have composed
somewhere between 200 and 600 Rubaiyat (quatrains). Some are known to be authentic and are
attributed to him, while others seem to be combinations or corruption of his poetry, and
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into most languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Hindi,
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