Fez Musicfest Honors Khayyam | ||
Fez Musicfest Honors Khayyam Persian poet Omar Khayyam was honored at the 18th Annual World Sacred Music Festival, which was held in the Moroccan city of Fez. The festival’s theme was “Re-enchanting the World” and it paid special tribute to Omar Khayyam, who was born in the eastern Iranian city of Neyshabur in 1048 and died in his hometown in 1131. Khayyam was specifically honored in a film directed by Tony Gatlif, whose musicals and films capturing the essence and emotion of Tsigan, Eastern, and Sufi music have brought him international fame. Khayyam was also an Islamic scholar and mathematician. He compiled astronomical tables, contributed to calendar reform, and discovered a geometrical method of solving cubic equations by intersecting a parabola with a circle. Khayyam’s influence was not limited to Iran’s borders, and his work has had an impact on many societies and their literature. | ||
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