Eric Ormsby

Eric Ormsby

Infobox Person
name= Eric L. Ormsby
caption= Professor Ormsby
birth_date= 1941
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death_date=
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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).

cite web |url=http://www.iis.ac.uk/view_person.asp?ID=100450&type=user |title=Eric Ormsby |work=Institute of Ismaili Studies web site]

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Bibliography

*cite book
title=Ghazali
publisher=Oneworld Publication
year=2007
pages=160 pp

*cite book
title=Time's Covenant
publisher=Biblioasis
year=2006
pages=300 pp

*cite book
title=Daybreak at the Straits and Other Poems
publisher=Zoo Press
year=2004
pages=72 pp

*cite book
title=Facsimiles of Time:Essays on Poetry and Translation
publisher=Porcupine's Quill
year=2001
pages=256 pp

*cite book
title=Araby
publisher=Vehicule Press
year=2001
pages=112 pp

*cite book
title=For a Modest God
publisher=Grove Press
year=1997
pages=139 pp

*cite book
title=Coastlines
publisher=ECW Press
year=1992

*cite book
title=Bavarian Shrine
publisher=ECW Press
year=1990

*cite book
title=Moses Maimonides and His Time
publisher=Catholic University of America Press
year=1989

*cite book
title=Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (new series) in the Princeton University Library / by Rudolf Mach & Eric L. Ormsby.
publisher=Princeton University Press
year=1987

*cite book
title=Theodicy in Islamic Thought : the Dispute over al-Ghazālī’s "best of all possible worlds"
publisher=Princeton University Press
year=1984

External links

* [http://quebecbooks.qwf.org/authors/view/163 Database of Quebec English Language Author]
* [http://www.nysun.com/authors/Eric+Ormsby The New York Sun The Most Recent Article Archives of Ormsby]
* [http://www.mcgill.ca/reporter/34/08/ormsby/ Interview in McGill Reporter]
* [http://www.sentex.net/~pql/facsimiles.html Review of Facsimiles of Time]
* [http://www.iis.ac.uk/view_person.asp?ID=100450&type=user Recent page of Eric Ormsby]


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