Background
Ormsby, Eric Linn was born on October 16, 1941 in Atlanta. Son of Robert and Virginia (Haire) Ormsby.
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Bavarian Shrine and Other Poems
( The poems in this collection, representing work from th...)
The poems in this collection, representing work from the decade 1980–1990, range from evocations of common objects—a sea shell or a twisted nail—to explorations of an inner world of memory and imagination. Throughout the collection, there is a tension between things in their unique coherence and the imagination compelled to assimilate them.
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For a Modest God: New and Selected Poems (Grove Press Poetry Series)
(Ormsby's new work is here presented together with a gener...)
Ormsby's new work is here presented together with a generous selection from two previous volumes published in Canada, Bavarian Shrine and Other Poems and Coastlines. In this earlier material, the poet delights in celebrating the hidden life in everyday objects: a twisted nail, a seashell, a roadside weed, the human body itself. Revealing the mystery and amazement contained in the quotidian, Ormsby's poetry has always been able to transmute the humblest object by virtue of his stunning gift for metaphor and his opulent exuberance of language. This is a poet whose verse rewards both the head and the heart, who can discover entire galaxies in a scrap of lichen, who can locate an entire lifetime of submerged emotion in the touch of an old woman's hand.
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Ghazali: The Revival of Islam (Makers of the Muslim World) by Ormsby, Eric (2007) Hardcover
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Ghazali: The Revival of Islam (Makers of the Muslim World)
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This fascinating work profiles Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111), the foremost Islamic scholar and mystic of the medieval period. Attracting the patronage of the vizier Nizam al-Mulk early in his career, he was appointed head of the Nizamiyyah College at Baghdad, and attracted audiences from across the Islamic world, who sought his teachings on Islamic philosophy and jurisprudence. Eventually renouncing his position due to a spiritual crisis, he went into self-imposed exile, during which he wrote the Sufi masterpiece, Revival of the Sciences of Religion. Concise and lucid, this is a perfect introduction to the great man’s life and work.
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Facsimiles of Time
( Eric Ormsby is a poet who writes prose that is both gra...)
Eric Ormsby is a poet who writes prose that is both graceful and hard-headed. With an outspoken contempt for cant and literary persiflage, Ormsby ranges over a surprising array of writers and literatures. Each essay involves a new and sometimes startling viewpoint, whether on Hart Crane's homosexuality and its effect on his poems or the strange and twisted, yet redeeming, place which Shakespeare held in his own family history. From American and Canadian poetry to Classical Arabic literature Ormsby brings a fresh slant and incisive expression to his prose. What was Franz Kafka doing at a ski resort in the last years of his life and what did he do there besides tobogganing? Everyone knows that Jorge Luis Borges was bookish, but did you know he was bloodthirsty as well? How is Pat Lowther's posthumous reputation as a poet connected with the brutal circumstances of her murder? These and other mysteries are explored in the 17 elegant essays that make up Eric Ormby's new book.
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(For a Modest God: New and Selected Poems) Author: Eric L. Ormsby published on (April, 1997)
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Araby (Signal Editions)
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Araby is a new collection of poems on the adventures, dreams, hopes, and imaginings of two singular characters: Jaham, the "Father of Clouds," a semi-nomadic poet and auto mechanic, and his inseparable sidekick Bald Adham, also a virtuoso mechanic as well as pillar of Muslim piety. With sly linguistic exuberance these poems recount the lives and deaths of Jaham and Adham and evoke the difficult terrain they share, not only with camels, wolves, and vultures, but with the mysterious jinn, beings of pure fire.Both in style and content, Araby is Eric Ormsby's most dramatic departure to date.
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(Ghazali: The Revival of Islam ) Author: Eric L. Ormsby Mar-2008
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Daybreak at the Straits and Other Poems
(Book by Ormsby, Eric L.)
Book by Ormsby, Eric L.
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- Theodicy in Islamic Thought: The Dispute Over Al-Ghazali's Best of All Possible Worlds (Princeton Legacy Library) (The first detailed study of Islamic theodicy, the book po...)
- Handlist of Arabic Manuscripts (New Series) in the Princeton University Library (Princeton Studies on the Near East) (This catalogue describes over 2,000 Arabic manuscripts ac...)
- Theodicy in Islamic Thought: The Dispute Over Al-Ghazali's Best of All Possible Worlds (Princeton Legacy Library) by Eric Linn Ormsby (2014-07-14)
- Theodicy in Islamic Thought: The Dispute Over Al-Ghazali's Best of All Possible Worlds (Princeton Legacy Library) (The first detailed study of Islamic theodicy, the book po...)
- Handlist of Arabic Manuscripts (New Series) in the Princeton University Library (Princeton Studies on the Near East) by Rudolf Mach (1987-04-21)
Eric Linn Ormsby
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor summa cum laude, University Pennsylvania, 1971. Master of Arts, Princeton University, 1973. Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1981.
Master of Library Science, Rutgers University, 1978.
Career
Near East bibliographer library Princeton (New Jersey) University, 1975-1977, Near East curator library, 1977-1983. Library director Catholic University American, Washington, 1983-1986, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1986-1996, associate professor Institute Islamic Studies Canada, 1986-1996, professor Canada, 1996—2005. Professor, chief library Institute Ismaili Studies, London, since 2005, professor, social research associate, since 2008.
Consultant New York University, 1981-1982. Member library committee Middle East Institute, Washington, 1985-1987, Al Akhawayn University, Morocco, 1994-1995, Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, Riyadh, 1995-1996. Chairman continuing education committee Washington Consortium, 1983-1986.
Member board Center Research Libraries, 1989-1995.
Achievements
Works
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Araby (Signal Editions)
( Araby is a new collection of poems on the adventures, d...)
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Theodicy in Islamic Thought: The Dispute Over Al-Ghazali's Best of All Possible Worlds (Princeton Legacy Library)
( The first detailed study of Islamic theodicy, the book ...)
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Theodicy in Islamic Thought: The Dispute Over Al-Ghazali's Best of All Possible Worlds (Princeton Legacy Library)
( The first detailed study of Islamic theodicy, the book ...)
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Handlist of Arabic Manuscripts (New Series) in the Princeton University Library (Princeton Studies on the Near East)
( This catalogue describes over 2,000 Arabic manuscripts ...)
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Bavarian Shrine and Other Poems
( The poems in this collection, representing work from th...)
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For a Modest God: New and Selected Poems (Grove Press Poetry Series)
(Ormsby's new work is here presented together with a gener...)
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Ghazali: The Revival of Islam (Makers of the Muslim World)
( This fascinating work profiles Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (10...)
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Facsimiles of Time
( Eric Ormsby is a poet who writes prose that is both gra...)
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Daybreak at the Straits and Other Poems
(Book by Ormsby, Eric L.)
- Ghazali: The Revival of Islam (Makers of the Muslim World) by Ormsby, Eric (2007) Hardcover
- (For a Modest God: New and Selected Poems) Author: Eric L. Ormsby published on (April, 1997)
- Theodicy in Islamic Thought: The Dispute Over Al-Ghazali's Best of All Possible Worlds (Princeton Legacy Library) by Eric Linn Ormsby (2014-07-14)
- (Ghazali: The Revival of Islam ) Author: Eric L. Ormsby Mar-2008
- Handlist of Arabic Manuscripts (New Series) in the Princeton University Library (Princeton Studies on the Near East) by Rudolf Mach (1987-04-21)
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Araby (Signal Editions)
Membership
Instructor Princeton Adult School, 1978-1980. Fellow Templeton-Cambridge, 2006, Royal Asiatic Society. Member Middle East Libraries Association (vice president 1981-1982, president 1982-1983), Societe des Amis de Jean de la Fontaine, Canada Association Research Libraries (vice president 1988-1989), Canada Library.
Association, Association pour l'Avancement des Sciences et des Techniques de la Documentation, Conseil des recteurs et des principaux des universities du Québec, Sous-Comité des Bibliotheques (president 1989-1991).
Connections
Married Dorothy Louise Hoffmann, July 22, 1967 (divorced 1995). Children: Daniel Paul, Charles Martin. Married Irena Zantous Murray, September 30, 1995.
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Roman Catholic