- Journal articles from academic databases (click here for section one).
- Books. Print and electronic (eBooks) books (click here for section two).
- Critical and biographical Web sites (click here for section three).
SECTION ONE: Journal articles from academic databases. <back to page top>
Literary topics are among the more difficult to research in online databases. To assist you in this, the following are specific recommendations regarding Omar Khayyam.
| DATABASE |
SEARCH
TERMS |
RESULTS |
| Academic Search Premier | omar khayyam Perform the basic search. |
Provides a number of relevant items. |
| Arts & Sciences Collections I & II | omar khayyam JSTOR, the search system for Arts & Sciences Collections I & II, searches within its various journal "collections" (click here for details). |
Provides a small number of revelant documents. |
| Encyclopedia Britannica | khayyam Perform the default search. |
Provides a primary encyclopedia article and several related articles. |
| Expanded Academic ASAP | omar khayyam Perform the Subject search. |
Provides a number of relevant items. |
| Literature Resource Center | omar khayyam Perform the default (author) search. After you perform your search, select each of the tabs for biography, criticisms, web links, and journal articles. |
Provides a number of quality documents. |
| MagillOnLiterature | omar khayyam Perform the default search. |
Provides a small number of relevant items. |
| Research Library Complete | omar khayyam Perform the basic search. Set the "Database:" drop-down menu to "Interdisciplinary - Research Library".
|
Provides a number of quality items. |
SECTION TWO: Troy Library book holdings. <back to page top>
- The following bibliography
is for selected holdings. For complete holdings consult the Online Catalog.
- Circulating books
not available at your local library may be requested by interlibrary
loan.
- eBooks are electronic books that Troy makes available (immediately) to its users worldwide via the Internet.
Rubaiyat of Omar
Khayyam
Location: eBook
Famous Problems
and Their Mathematicians
Location: eBook
The Rubáiyát
of Omar Khayyám, rendered into English quatrains by Edward FitzGerald
PK6513.A1 1942
Location: Dothan
In search of Omar
Khayyam
PK6525 .D313 1971B
Location: Phenix City
Rubáiyát
of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia
PK6513 .A1 1900
Location: Troy, AL
Persian literature
PK 6449 E1 P47X 1900
Location: Troy, AL
The Pre-Raphaelites
and their circle. : With the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
PR1223 .L3 1968
Location: Phenix City
The romance of
the Rubáiyát; Edward Fitzgerald's first edition, reprinted
with introduction and notes
PK6513.A1 1959X
Location: Troy, AL
Creating literature
out of life : the making of four masterpieces : Death in Venice, Treasure
island, The rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, War and peace
PN871 .A44 1996
Location: Troy, AL .
SECTION THREE: Critical and biographical Web sites. <back to page top>
- Ghiyas al-Din Abul
Fath Umar ibn Ibrahim Khayyam Nishapuri
http://www.iles.umn.edu/faculty/bashiri/Poets%20folder/Khayyam.html
- Medieval
Sourcebook: Omar Khayyam (d. 1123 CE):
The Rubaiyat, c. 1120
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/omarkhayyam-rub2.html
- [minstrels]
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam -- Omar Khayyam
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/162.html
- Omar Khayyam
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Khayyam.html
- Omar Khayyam
(abu-l-Fath Omar ibn Ibrahim Khayyam) - Mathematics and the Liberal
Arts
http://math.truman.edu/~thammond/history/OmarKhayyam.html
- Omar Khayyam
Part I
http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Clicktownfolder/Persianfolder/Omar1.html
- Rubaiyat
of Omar Khayyam
http://www.armory.com/~thrace/ev/siir/Omar_Khayyam.html
- Rubaiyat of Omar
Khayyam
http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/okhym.htm
- Rubaiyat of Omar
Khayyam
http://www.okonlife.com/life/index.htm
- Works by Omar Khayyam
http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Khayyam.html
