At a glance
- Roles
- Scientist · Poet
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
MathematicsAstronomy and timekeepingPhilosophy and logic
Place in the story
- ScientistTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Umar Khayyam, who is Umar ibn Ibrahim al-Khayyam, Abu al-Fath, a mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and poet 1.
Life
The encyclopedia gives his birth as 439 AH and about 1048 CE, and his death as 526 AH and about 1131 CE. Little is known of his life 1.
The entry needs an additional source to establish his works and his reports.
Connections
- Born in
- Nishapur
- Died in
- Nishapur
- Participated in
- Khayyam's algebra treatise· The Jalali calendar reform
People and things also explored
Khayyam's algebra treatise· Nishapur· The Bayhaqiyya Madrasa of Nishapur· The Sa'diyya Madrasa of Nishapur· Qasr al-Shadiyakh· Battle of Nishapur (1038)· The Conquest of Naysabur· Jaʿda ibn Hubayra's Khurāsān mission and Naysābūr's defiance (37 AH)
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p.628
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Umar Khayyam”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/umar-khayyam/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-28.