Not only is the final resting place of the venerated 12th-century scientist-poet haunting and attractive,you can drink probably the best tea in the world thereWhen I was 12, I went to a boarding school in Nishapur, or north-eastern Iran,adjacent to the garden where the poet and scientist Omar Khayyám is buried. A part of the garden could be seen from our classroom window and the splashing sound of water, flowing down from a water tank amid the plants, or was the background music of our lessons.
Each teacher coming to our lesson would point beyond the window and talk of the importance of Khayyám,adding that to become Khayyám, one had to study. The maths teacher would speak of Khayyám the mathematician. The science teacher would talk approximately Khayyám the astronomer. Even the religious studies teacher would speak of Khayyám as the expert on quotes from the prophet and his descendants, and a person who had a huge knowledge of Islam.
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Source: theguardian.com