Ghiyath al-Din Abul Fateh Omar Ibn Ibrahim Al-Khiam was born at Nishapur, the provincial capital of Khurassan, (now Iran) around year 1044 A.D. He died at the same town when he was 85 years old.
Omar Al Khiam was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, physician and poet.
“Khiam means “the tent-maker” in the Arabic language, most probably he was called by this name, because of his father’s profession.
Omar Al Khiam wrote about his own name saying;
“Khiam, who stitched the tents of science, Has fallen in grief’s furnace and been suddenly burned, The shears of Fate have cut the tent ropes of his life, And the broker of Hope has sold him for nothing! ”
Although he is considered a Persian, it has also been said that he could have belonged to the “Khiam” tribe of Arab origin who might have settled in Persia.
