Omar Khayyam's Secret

<p><em>Omar Khayyam's Secret: Hermeneutics of the Robaiyat in Quantum Sociological Imagination</em> is a twelve-book series of which this book subtitled <em>New Khayyami Studies: Quantumizing the Newtonian Structures of C. Wright Mills's Sociological Imagination for A New Hermeneutic Method</em> is the first volume. Each book is independently readable although it will be best understood as a part of the whole series.</p><p> </p><p>In the overall series the transdisciplinary sociologist Mohammad H. Tamdgidi shares the results of his decades-long research on Omar Khayyam the enigmatic 11th/12th centuries Persian Muslim sage philosopher astronomer mathematician physician writer and poet from Neyshabour Iran whose life and works still remain behind a veil of deep mystery. Tamdgidi's purpose has been to find definitive answers to the many puzzles still surrounding Khayyam especially regarding the existence nature and purpose of the Robaiyat in his life and works. To explore the questions posed he advances a new hermeneutic method of textual analysis informed by what he calls the quantum sociological imagination to gather and study all the attributed philosophical religious scientific and literary writings of Khayyam. </p><p> </p><p>In this first book of the series following a common preface and introduction to the series Tamdgidi develops the quantum sociological imagination method framing his hermeneutic study in the series as a whole. In the prefatory note he shares the origins of this series and how the study is itself a moment in the trajectory of a broader research project. In his introduction he describes how centuries of Khayyami studies especially during the last two have reached an impasse in shedding light on his enigmatic life and works especially his attributed Robaiyat.</p><p> </p><p>The four chapters of the book are then dedicated to developing the quantum sociological imagination as a new hermeneutic method framing the Khayyami studies in the series. The method builds in an applied way on the results of Tamdgidi's recent work in the sociology of scientific knowledge <em>Liberating Sociology: From Newtonian Toward Quantum Imagination: Volume 1: Unriddling the Quantum Enigma </em>(2020) where he explored extensively in greater depth and in the context of understanding the so-called quantum enigma the Newtonian and quantum ways of imagining reality. In this first book he shares the findings of that research in summary amid new applied insights developed in relation to Khayyami studies. </p><p> </p><p>In the first chapter Tamdgidi raises a set of eight questions about the structure of C. Wright Mills's sociological imagination as a potential framework for Khayyami studies. In the second chapter he shows how the questions are symptomatic of Newtonian structures that still continue to frame Mills's sociological imagination. In the third chapter the author explores how the sociological imagination can be reinvented to be more in tune with the findings of quantum science. In the last chapter the implications of the quantum sociological imagination for devising a hermeneutic method for new Khayyam and Robaiyat studies are outlined. In conclusion the findings of this first book of the <em>Omar Khayyam's Secret</em> series are summarized.</p>