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Wine of Nishapur:
A Photographer's Promenade in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Photography: Shahrokh Golestan
Calligraphy: Nasrollah Afjei
Translated by: Karim Emami
It sometimes requires a very subtle flair to discover the talent of some artists. Shahrokh
Golestan is one of them. And we owe him a fresh perception of the poetic works of the
great Persian scholar, poet, mathematician and astronomer, Omar Khayyam. A seasoned master
in the art of photography, he has managed to reflect, with strong visual eloquence, the
short quatrains, known around the world as the Rubaiyat, composed by the poet from
Nishapur. The Wine of Nishapur, which has been available only to a limited number of
enthusiasts since first published in 1988, can now be ordered from this publisher by all
lovers of Persian art and the Rubaiyat.
In these original masterpieces that link the East and the West, visuals also include
many Persian calligraphic transcriptions of the Rubaiyat by Master Nasrollah Afjei. The
poems are penned in their original writing. The plates are the fruit of extensive research
as to form and color, in compositions of rare exquisite beauty, and they confer to the
publication a very special quality.
If Omar Khayyam will always be a source of delight to the lovers of poetry, the book was
also created with the aim of attracting new readers and admirers, beyond the limits of
existing schools, through an innovative approach. Karim Emami, a leading Iranian
translator, accepted the challenge of undertaking yet another translation of the Rubaiyat
into the English language.
Here is a true masterpiece, a fine tool for meditation for one and all.
Specifications:
Clothbound with five-color printed jacket; 120pp., 13x13 in., 28 original color photos; 72
color Persian calligraphic art works; 39 b&w; Persian calligraphic art works with 10
in black and gold.
ISBN:2-87658-040-3 (cloth): $34.95
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