Moments of truth. Yogananda, Paramahansa; Donald J. Walters. Nevada City, Crystal Clarity Publishers, 1995. ISBN: 9781565897250.
“Reprint of the Philosophical Library 1946 first edition.”
German translation: Paramahansa Yogananda interpretiert die Rubaijat des Omar Chajjam, 1996.
FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát: A Victorian Invention. Esmail Zare-Behtash. The Australian National University, 1997.
Summary:
This study was written in the belief that FitzGerald did not so much translate a poem as invent a persona based on the Persian astronomer and mathematician (but not poet) Omar Khayyám. This ‘invention’ opened two different lines of interpretation and scholarship, each forming its own idea of a ‘real’ Omar based on FitzGerald’s invention. One line sees Omar as a hedonist and nihilist; the other as a mystic or Sufi. My argument first is that the historical Omar was neither the former nor the latter; second, FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát is a ‘Victorian’ product even if the raw material of the poem belongs to the eleventh-century Persia. The Introduction tries to find a place for the Rubáiyát in the English nineteenth-century era.
Edward FitzGerald. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition. Edited by Christopher Decker. Charlotteville ; London, University Press of Virginia, 1997. lxxii, 258 p. (Victorian Literature and Culture Series). ISBN: 0813916895.
Summary:
In this critical edition all extent states of FitzGerald’s versions of the translation are published for the first time, providing a full record of its complicated textual evoluation. Decker illuminated the complex process of revision by providing a textual appendix in which a comparative printing lays down each stratum of the composition.
Lost on the Titanic. Rob Shepherd. London : Shepherds Sangorski & Sutcliffe and Zaehnsdorf, 2001. ix, 60 p. ISBN: 9780954107208.
Summary:
Book focusing on the unique binding that the firm had produced for a copy of Omar Khayam’s Rubáʻí̄yát which had been on the Titanic when it sunk in 1912.
“Published in 2001 to celebrate the centenary of Sangorski and Sutcliffe in a limited edition of 750 copies”.
Bibliography of ‘Omar Khayyám. Compiled by F. Angouráni and Z. Angouráni. Tehran, Society for the Appreciation of Cultural Works and Dignitaries, 2002.
410, 220 p.
Text in English and Persian.
Edward FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. Broomall, Chelsea House, 2004. (Bloom’s modern critical interpretations)
vii, 252 p. ISBN: 0791075834
Summary:
This edition brings together the most important 20th-century criticism on Edward FitzGerald’s The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam through a number of previously published articles and chapters by well-known literary critics. The collection also features a short biography on Edward FitzGerald, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom.
The wine of wisdom. The life, poetry and philosophy of Omar Khayyam. Mehdi Aminrazavi. Oxford, Oneworld Publishing, 2005. 396 p. ISBN: 1-85168-355-0.
Summary:
The intoxicating message of Khayyam’s famous Ruba‘iyyat created an image of exotic Orientalism in the West but, as author Mehdi Aminrazavi reveals, Khayyam’s achievements went far beyond the intoxicating message within these verses. Philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and mystic – his many different identities are examined here in detail, creating a coherent picture of this complex and often misunderstood figure.