Eric Ormsby
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).
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Eric Ormsby
- Birth Name
- Eric Linn Ormsby
- Birthplace
- Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Born
- 1941 · Atlanta.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- poet · orientalist · writer
- Honours
- A.-M.-Klein Prize for Poetry
- Languages
- English
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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).
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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.
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• Birth Name — Eric Linn Ormsby • Birthplace — Atlanta, Georgia, United States • Main Interests — Poetry, literature, Islamic philosophy • Institutions — Institute of Ismaili Studies • Website — Homepage
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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * • West-Eastern Divan: Complete, annotated new translation, including Goethe’s ‘Notes and Essays’ & the unpublished poems, translated by Eric Ormsby, 2019. Gingko
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