The Awakening Wine: A Contextual and Philosophical Reading of Khayyam's Rubaiyat.
This article offers a philosophical and contextual analysis of the metaphor of "wine" in Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat, challenging reductive interpretations that associate Khayyam solely with hedonism and secularism. Drawing upon a clearly defined corpus of quatrains authenticated by leading Khayyam scho...
| Publicado en: | Çankaya University Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 157 - 174 |
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Cankaya University Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences
Jun2026
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