"Khayyam"

"Throughout this work, I have referred to 'Khayyam' as a mysterious figure who is more than a historical personality and one who may or may not have written the Ruba'iyyat. For me, Khayyam represents the bewilderment of those perplexed humans who spend their entire life going between reason and revelation, never resting in peace, and holding fast to the fundamentals of intellectual integrity with an uncompromising spirit."

--Mehdi Aminrazavi, The Wine of Wisdom, 280.