Related Subjects Historical Fiction - Biographical Lebanese Fiction Mysticism & Spirituality - Fiction 4. Amin Maalouf (Goodreads Author), Azam Dafin (Translator) 0.00 avg rating 0 ratings. The Story of Samarkand, The Mysterious Story of Khayyam's Manuscript from the Titanic to Samarqand (In Persian Language) by. He is the author of five highly acclaimed novels including Samarkand which was also published by Interlink. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Together they take it on the fateful voyage of the Titanic. Amin Maalouf won the Prix Goncourt in 1993 for his novel The Rock of Tanios. Unwittingly involved in a brawl on the streets of Samarkand, Omar Khayyam is brought before a local judge who recognizes his genius as. An American scholar learns of the manuscript's survival and recovers it with the help of a Persian princess. The story of Samarkand is woven around the history of the manuscript of the Rubaiyaat of Omar Khayyam, from its creation by the poet and sage in eleventh-century Persia to its loss when the Titanic sank in 1912.

At the end of the nineteenth century the poems fire the imagination of the West in Edward Fitzgerald's evocative translation.

The threads of his life become interwoven with the designs of the vizier, Nizam al Mulk, and of Hassan Sabbah, the founder of the Order of the Assassins who later hides the precious manuscript in his famous mountain fortress. Thus the head of a great poet is saved and the Rubaiyaat of Omar Khayyam is born. Unwittingly involved in a brawl on the streets of Samarkand, Omar Khayyam is brought before a local judge who recognizes his genius as a poet and gives him a blank book in which to inscribe his verses. The story of Samarkand is woven around the history of the manuscript of the Rubaiyaat of Omar Khayyam, from its creation by the poet and sage in eleventh-century Persia to its loss when the Titanic sank in 1912.

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