 FitzGerald's "skepticist" reading of the poetry is still defended by modern scholars.Sadegh Hedayat ("The Blind Owl" 1936) was the most notable modern proponent of Khayyam's philosophy as agnostic skepticism.In his introductory essay to his second edition of the "Quatrains of the Philosopher Omar Khayyam" (1922), Hedayat states that "while Khayyam believes in the transmutation and transformation of the human body, he does not believe in a separate soul; if we are lucky, our bodily particles would be used in the making of a jug of wine".