The Great 'Umar Khayyæm -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Khayyæm's Universal Appeal: Man, Wine, and the Hereafter in the Quatrains -- Reading the Rubæ'iyyæt as "ResistanceLiterature" -- Some 'Umarian Quatrains from the Lifetime of 'Umar Khayyām -- Between Tavern and Madrasa: 'Umar Khayyæm the Scientist -- The Arab 'Umar Khayyæm -- Singing the quatrains Omar Khayyām and Umm Kulthūm -- Quatrains of 'Umar Khayyæm in Turkish, and Turkish Quatrains -- Other Persian Quatrains in Holland: the Roseraie du Savoir of „usayn-i Æzæd -- 'Umar Khayyæm's Impact on Dutch Literature -- Bitter Certainty: J.H. Leopold On 'Umar Khayyæm -- How 'Umar Khayyæm Inspired Dutch Visual Artists -- The Legacy of 'Umar Khayyæm in Music of theNetherlands -- The Russian perception of Khayyæm: from text toimage -- The Translation of 'Umar Khayyæm's Poetry into Georgian - a Touchstone of Translators -- The Reception of FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of 'Umar Khayyám by the Victorians -- Vernacularizing Rubaiyat: the Politics of Madhushala in the context of the Indian Nationalism -- Attempts at locating the Rubáiyát in Indian Philosophical thought -- An 'Umar Khayyæm Database -- Index.