Khayyam

The Iran-Spain Friendship Association will hold a meeting on eminent Persian poet and mathematician Omar Khayyam at Tehran's Book City.
The event, which will be held on Tuesday, is entitled Khayyam in Barcelona and will focus on the status of Persian literature, particularly Khayyam, in Spain.
A number of Iranian and Spanish scholars will attend the gathering. Ramon Gaja, Seyyed Hassan Shafti, Ahmad Khezri, and Mohammad Parsanasab will deliver lectures on the influence of Khayyam in Spanish literature and art.
Omar Khayyam (1048-1131 CE) was a Persian polymath, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, and poet who was popularized in the West through the translation of his magnum opus The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859). He wrote treatises on mechanics, geography, and music.
Khayyam is known to English-speaking readers through a 101-verse semi-narrative translation of the collection of his quatrains by the English writer Edward FitzGerald.
He also contributed to the reform of the Iranian calendar, and it is believed that he proposed a heliocentric theory well before Copernicus.
Earlier in December, Iran's Golestan Palace held an exhibition of calligraphy works inspired by poems of Omar Khayyam in ten different languages.
The Book City Institute (in Persian Shahr-e Ketab) is located at 3rd Alley, Bokharest Street, Shahid Beheshti Avenue.