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Category: Omar Kahyyam

  • Which weighs the greater—my guilt, or Your mercy

    29 Nov 2025
  • Khayyam’s Philosophy Series: On Knowing, Not-Knowing, and the Essence That Remains

    23 Nov 2025
  • When Knowledge Reveals Its Own Limits

    23 Nov 2025
  • When Certainty Fails Both Paths

    21 Nov 2025
  • Khayyam’s Philosophy Series: Gradation of nobility

    18 Nov 2025
  • Cast Upon the Board of Existence

    11 Nov 2025
  • By Whose Love We’re Formed, By Whose Wrath Shattered

    4 Nov 2025
  • Khayyam’s Philosophy Series: Risāla fī al-Kawn wa al-Taklīf (On the World and the Duty)

    28 Oct 2025
  • Khayyam’s Philosophy Series: Principal subjects of philosophy

    28 Oct 2025
  • When the World Goes On Without Us

    21 Oct 2025
  • When the End Remains the Same

    14 Oct 2025
  • Into the Heart of Dust

    7 Oct 2025
  • The Moment Within Your Reach

    30 Sep 2025
  • Before They Make Pitchers from Our Dust

    23 Sep 2025
  • The Breath That May Not Return

    16 Sep 2025
  • The Bowl of Reason and the Tears of Night

    9 Sep 2025
  • Philosophy in Verse: A Thematic Translation of Omar Khayyam’s Quatrains

    2 Sep 2025
  • When the Veil Lifts

    26 Aug 2025
  • What Are Persian Quatrains (Rubāiyāt)?

    19 Aug 2025

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Among ruins, inscriptions, and forgotten halls, some stories still breathe.
I share reflections now and then — slow, thoughtful, unhurried.
Here, we follow the line that runs from the ancient to the now.

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