Without electric light, one spends much time with stars. This can lead to careful observation and measurement, or to flights of fancy. In the case of the Persian Davinci Omar Khayyam it led to both. The Rubayat for which he is known to us is as much the work of his creative western interpreter Fitzgerald. In fact Khayyam ought to be better known as a famous quadratic al-gebrist. Here we find him unbearded.
The biography Spiritual Wayfaring tells as much about Khayyam's piety as does his hajj. It is in the Sufi spirit that we much understand his quatrains about the Beloved. The film skirts the line of making a taudry love story of a spiritual quest.
"Look at your willow tree.
Now what could be more graceful?
Bowing its thanks to the earth which gives it life.
Would you have me bow low before the Shaw?"
It is God, not wine, in the clay jar.
The biography Spiritual Wayfaring tells as much about Khayyam's piety as does his hajj. It is in the Sufi spirit that we much understand his quatrains about the Beloved. The film skirts the line of making a taudry love story of a spiritual quest.
"Look at your willow tree.
Now what could be more graceful?
Bowing its thanks to the earth which gives it life.
Would you have me bow low before the Shaw?"
It is God, not wine, in the clay jar.
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