Eric Ormsby
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| Eric L. Ormsby | |
| Born | 1941 |
|---|---|
Eric Linn Ormsby, born in Atlanta in 1941, is a poet, a scholar, and a man of letters. He has long been a resident of Montreal, where until recently he was a professor of Islamic thought at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University. Presently, he lives and writes in London, England, where he is Professor and Chief librarian at the Institute of Ismaili Studies.
Ormsby began writing poetry as a young man and began publishing in 1985. He has six poetry collections, Bavarian Shrine and Other Poems (1990), which won a Quebec prize for the best poetry of that year, Coastlines (1992), For a Modest God: New & Selected Poems (1997), Araby (2001), Daybreak at the Straits (2004), and Time's Covenant (2006). His poems have been published in various journals and magazines such as The New Yorker and The Paris Review and anthologized in The Norton Anthology of Poetry. He has also authored a book of essays on poetry and translation, including Arabic literature.
As an academician, Ormsby has published widely on the topic of Islamic thought which includes Theodicy in Islamic Thought (Princeton University Press, 1984), Handlist of Arabic Manuscripts (New Series) in the Princeton University Library (1987), Moses Maimonides and His Time (Washington, D.C., 1987), and Ghazali (Oxford: Oneworld, 2007).
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- ^ Eric Ormsby. Institute of Ismaili Studies web site.
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- (2007) Ghazali. Oneworld Publication, 160 pp.
- (2006) Time's Covenant. Biblioasis, 300 pp.
- (2004) Daybreak at the Straits and Other Poems. Zoo Press, 72 pp.
- (2001) Facsimiles of Time:Essays on Poetry and Translation. Porcupine's Quill, 256 pp.
- (2001) Araby. Vehicule Press, 112 pp.
- (1997) For a Modest God. Grove Press, 139 pp.
- (1992) Coastlines. ECW Press.
- (1990) Bavarian Shrine. ECW Press.
- (1989) Moses Maimonides and His Time. Catholic University of America Press.
- (1987) Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (new series) in the Princeton University Library / by Rudolf Mach & Eric L. Ormsby.. Princeton University Press.
- (1984) Theodicy in Islamic Thought : the Dispute over al-Ghazālī’s "best of all possible worlds". Princeton University Press.
