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Samarkand

A journey through the Shah-i Zinda necropolis with Omar Kayyam, Persian mathematician, astronomer and poet who stayed in Samarkand from 1072 until 1074. Today, he is famous for his Rubaiyat in which he developed rebellious and imprudent thinking, alternating between wisdom and atheism, lucidity and scepticism, in praise of wine and love...

Traduction : Jacques Permentiers.