سمرقند

When I was born on the first of March 1873... and even though my parents did not want to confuse me with this name coming from afar... "Omar," they postponed it to the second rank so that I could, if I wished, replace it with (ع) [5 in Latin letter]... The inheritance that came to me with this lament was only to awaken my curiosity about this ancient twin, and at the age of fifteen, I began to read everything related to him... and I learned not to see in the letter (ع)... anything but an indelible stain of my foolish childish parents' recklessness, until a meeting rekindled my passion and face of my life with insistence on the footsteps of Khayyam. The details of this novel begin from these beginnings, with its owner’s insistence on tracing the biography of Omar Khayyam, which prompted him to obtain this manuscript from which Amin Maalouf wove a captivating narrative fabric of imagination that soared in the atmosphere of the historical manuscript, casting light on the events of that time period that Omar Khayyam documented, and which were passed down by the guardians of the library in (Almout) from grandfather to grandson. Through it, we were able to know the impact of Khayyam after his death, especially regarding the transformation of the Hashshashin... and it became possible to recognize the "Rubaiyat of Khayyam" after it became impossible in the absence of the manuscript, where hundreds of forged quatrains and the "Rubaiyat of Khayyam" were mixed.