Eric Ormsby

{{Short description|American poet and academic (born 1941)}} {{Infobox philosopher | region = | era = | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Eric Linn Ormsby | birth_place = Atlanta, Georgia, United States | death_date =  | school_tradition = | main_interests = Poetry, literature, Islamic philosophy | institutions = Institute of Ismaili Studies | website = [https://www.iis.ac.uk/people/prof-eric-ormsby Homepage] }}

'''Eric Linn Ormsby''' (born 1941 in Atlanta, Georgia) is deputy head of academic research and publications at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London. He was formerly the Director of Libraries and a professor at McGill University Institute of Islamic Studies, where he also served as director. He has published widely on Islamic thought, including ''Theodicy in Islamic Thought'' (1984).<ref name=bio/>

Ormsby has had six collections of poetry published, including ''Bavarian Shrine and Other Poems'' (1990), which won a Quebec prize for the best poetry of that year. His poems have been published in ''The New Yorker'' and ''The Paris Review'', and have been anthologized in The Norton Anthology of Poetry.<ref name=bio>{{cite web |url=https://www.iis.ac.uk/people/prof-eric-ormsby |title=Prof. Eric Ormsby |publisher=Institute of Ismaili Studies |access-date=2020-10-08 |archive-date=2020-10-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010045724/https://www.iis.ac.uk/people/prof-eric-ormsby |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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==Selected works== *{{cite book | title=The Silent Qur'an and the Speaking Qur'an: Scriptural Sources of Islam Between History and Fervor (translation of Mohammad Amir-Moezzi's influential work in Persian) | publisher=Columbia University Press | year=2016 }} *{{cite book | title=Between Reason and Revelation: Twin Wisdoms Reconciled (An Annotated English Translation of Nasir-i Khusraw's Kitāb-i Jāmiʿ al-ḥikmatayn) | publisher=I. B. Tauris | year=2012 }} *{{cite book | title=Al-Ghazali on Love, Longing, Intimacy and Contentment (Kitab al-Mahabba wa'l-shawq wa'l-uns wa'l-rida) | publisher=Cambridge, Islamic Texts Society | year=2011 }} *{{cite book | title=Baboons of Hada | publisher=Carcanet Press | year=2011 }} *{{cite book | title=Fine Incisions: Essays on Poetry and Place | publisher=Porcupine's Quill | year=2010 }} *{{cite book | title=Ghazali | publisher=Oneworld Publications | 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=Véhicule 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 | url=https://archive.org/details/bavarianshrineot0000orms | url-access=registration | publisher=ECW Press | year=1990 | isbn=978-1-55022-107-7 }} *{{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 }} *''West-Eastern Divan: Complete, annotated new translation, including Goethe’s ‘Notes and Essays’ & the unpublished poems'', translated by Eric Ormsby, 2019. Gingko

== External links == {{Archival records|title=Eric Ormsby Papers}}

* [https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/eric-ormsby "Eric Ormsby"]. ''The New Yorker''. * [http://www.nysun.com/authors/Eric+Ormsby "Eric Ormsby — Archive"]. ''The New York Sun''. * [http://quebecbooks.qwf.org/authors/view/163 "Eric Ormsby"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070809010326/http://quebecbooks.qwf.org/authors/view/163 |date=2007-08-09 }}. QWF literary database of Quebec English-language authors. * [https://www.mcgill.ca/reporter/34/08/ormsby/ Interview in McGill Reporter] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20071115184723/http://www.sentex.net/~pql/facsimiles.html Review of Facsimiles of Time]

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