Tag: independent thinking in Islam

(Published in the Business Standard, 6th April 2009) What connects an 11th century Persian mathematician, a 19th century English eccentric, poets such as Rupert Brooke and Algernon Charles Swinburne, and a 21st century Iranian translator and book-lover? The book the world knows as The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam celebrates its 150th anniversary this year. The…