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Mohammad H Tamdgidi

Omar Khayyam's Secret

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Mohammad H Tamdgidi

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English

Okcir Press (Imprint of Ahead Publishing House)
10 June 2023

Religion & science; Islamic studies; Algebraic geometry

Series: Tayyebeh East-West Research and Translation

Omar Khayyam's Secret: Hermeneutics of the Robaiyat in Quantum Sociological Imagination, by Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, is a twelve-book series of which this book is the sixth volume, subtitled Khayyami Science: The Methodological Structures of the Robaiyat in All the Scientific Works of Omar Khayyam. Each book, independently readable, can be best understood as a part of the whole series.

In Book 6, Tamdgidi shares the Arabic texts, his new English translations (based on others' or his new Persian translations, also included in the volume), and hermeneutic analyses of five extant scientific writings of Khayyam: a treatise in music; a treatise on balance to weigh precious metals in a body composed of them; a treatise on dividing a circle quadrant to achieve a certain proportionality; a treatise on solving all cubic (and lower degree) algebraic equations using geometric methods; and a treatise on explaining three postulation problems in Euclid's book Elements. Khayyam wrote three other non-extant scientific treatises on nature, geography, and music, while a treatise in arithmetic is differently extant since it influenced the work of later Islamic and Western scientists. His work in astronomy on solar calendar reform is also differently extant in the calendar used in Iran today. A short tract on astrology attributed to him has been neglected.

Tamdgidi studies the scientific works in relation to Khayyam's own theological, philosophical, and astronomical views. The study reveals that Khayyam's science was informed by a unifying methodological attention to ratios and proportionality. So, likewise, any quatrain he wrote cannot be adequately understood without considering its place in the relational whole of its parent collection. Khayyam's Robaiyat is found to be, as a critique of fatalistic astrology, his most important scientific work in astronomy rendered in poetic form.

Studying Khayyam's scientific works in relation to those of other scientists out of the context of his own philosophical, theological, and astronomical views, would be like comparing the roundness of two fruits while ignoring that they are apples and oranges. Khayyam was a relational, holistic, and self-including objective thinker, being systems and causal-chains discerning, creative, transdisciplinary, transcultural, and applied in method. He applied a poetic geometric imagination to solving algebraic problems and his logically methodical thinking did not spare even Euclid of criticism. His treatise on Euclid unified numerical and magnitudinal notions of ratio and proportionality by way of broadening the notion of number to include both rational and irrational numbers, transcending its Greek atomistic tradition.

Khayyam's classification of algebraic equations, being capped at cubic types, tells of his applied scientific intentions that can be interpreted, in the context of his own Islamic philosophy and theology, as an effort in building an algebraic and numerical theory of everything that is not only symbolic of body's three dimensions, but also of the three-foldness of intellect, soul, and body as essential types of a unitary substance created by God to evolve relatively on its own in a two-fold succession order of coming from and going to its Source. Although the succession order poses limits, as captured in the astrological imagination, existence is not fatalistic. Khayyam's conceptualist view of the human subject as an objective creative force in a participatory universe allows for the possibility of human self-determination and freedom depending on his or her self-awakening, a cause for which the Robaiyat was intended. Its collection would be a balanced unity of wisdom gems ascending from multiplicity toward unity using Wine and various astrological, geometrical, numerical, calendrical, and musical tropes in relationally classified quatrains that follow a logical succession order.

By: Mohammad H Tamdgidi
Imprint: Okcir Press (Imprint of Ahead Publishing House)
Edition: 19th Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge (Monograph Series) ed.
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 43mm
Weight: 1.229kg
ISBN: 9781640980303
ISBN 10: 164098030X
Series: Tayyebeh East-West Research and Translation
Pages: 800
Publication Date: 10 June 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, Ph.D., is the founding director and editor of OKCIR: Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia, Mysticism, and Science (Utopystics) and its journal, Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge (ISSN: 1540-5699), which have served since 2002 to frame his independent research, pedagogical, and publishing initiatives. Besides his currently in progress work published in the 12-book series Omar Khayyam's Secret: Hermeneutics of the Robaiyat in Quantum Sociological Imagination (Okcir Press), he has previously authored Liberating Sociology: From Newtonian Toward Quantum Imaginations: Volume 1: Unriddling the Quantum Enigma (Okcir Press), Advancing Utopistics: The Three Component Parts and Errors of Marxism (Routledge/Paradigm) and Gurdjieff and Hypnosis: A Hermeneutic Study (Palgrave Macmillan). Tamdgidi has published numerous peer reviewed articles and chapters and edited more than thirty journal issues. He is a former associate professor of sociology specializing in social theory at UMass Boston and has taught sociology at SUNY-Binghamton and SUNY-Oneonta.

Reviews for Omar Khayyam's Secret: Hermeneutics of the Robaiyat in Quantum Sociological Imagination: Book 6: Khayyami Science: The Methodological Structures of the Robaiyat in All the Scientific Works of Omar Khayyam

""... a masterpiece in Omar Khayyam studies ..."" -- Jafar Aghayani Chavoshi (Ph.D., University of Paris, 1997), Professor of Philosophy of Science at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, specializing in Philosophy, Epistemology, and History of Mathematics and Science, and in Omar Khayyam Studies; From his Foreword to the last book of the Omar Khayyam's Secret series ""Book six of Tamdgidi's Omar Khayyam Secret series seeks, through its deft hermeneutic insights, to help readers gain discernments into the methodological organization of Khayyam's scientific thinking and the illuminations it offers to his literary works, particularly his poetry writing. (The book contains analyses of five extant scientific writings of Khayyam in the form of treatises, including one on music, two on balance one of which shows how to measure the weights of precious metals in a body composed of them, one on how to divide a circle quadrant to obtain ""a certain proportionality,"" a treatise on how to classify and solve all cubic [and lower degree] algebraic equations using geometric methods, and a treatise explaining three postulation problems of Euclid.) ... A second point of emphasis in dealing with Khayyam and the significance of the series is that he was a representative of the QSI [quantum way of thinking] as no other thinker, except in a limited way by authors of the Upanishads and in the Daoists tradition, with whom I have been acquainted. Readers will find, even in the sketch I have provided [in my Foreword] on the series, that when one is focusing on his study of art, science is present; and when one engages a treatise on science, literary source elucidations are made and (especially poetic) metaphorical strategies are being also pursued. To him, a scientific principle, a literary metaphor, and design sketch are interchangeable, and a single quatrain may contain all three, plus an irony with multiple meanings. Only a transdisciplinary and transcultural, as well as a trans-continuous, subject-participant mode of study, grounded on simultaneity and unity in parts of reality, could successfully understand his work."" -- Winston E. Langley, Professor Emeritus of Political Science & International Relations, Senior Fellow at the McCormack Graduate School for Policy & Global Studies, and a former Provost (2008-2017) of the University of Massachusetts Boston; From his Foreword to the last book of the Omar Khayyam's Secret series