Eric Ormsby
Biographic Data
| ID | 5403427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Ormsby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Ormsby |
| SIGNATURE | ORMSBY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Ismaili Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Robyn Creswell
Robyn Creswell opens his excellent study of a strangely neglected topic-Modernism in the Beirut of the 1950's-in dramatic fashion, as though it were a novel: 'It is a scene out of Balzac: a young man from the provinces arrives in the city, hoping to make his fame as a writer.'That 'young man' is the Syrian poet known-and now world-famous-as Adonis (Adūnīs in Arabic), born ‛Alī Aḥmad Sa‛īd Esber in 1930 to an Alawite family of farmers in a remote …
West-Eastern Divan
Maimonides against the Mutakallimun
In his Guide of the Perplexed, Maimonides criticizes certain unnamed Muslim theologians, especially with regard to their views on possibility. Maimonides identifies these views as stemming from the theologians’ espousal of the notion of “intellectual admissibility.” By this, they seem to mean that whatever is conceivable is possible in actuality. Maimonides strongly rejects this notion, as it appears to undermine any rational order in the world. …
The Silent Qur'an and the Speaking Qur'an
This is the first book to evaluate the writing of Islam's major scriptural sources within the context of the bloody conflicts that surrounded the succession of the Prophet. Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi rebuilds a Shi'ite understanding of Islam's early history and the genesis of its holy scriptures. At the same time, he proposes a fresh interpretative framework for the early history of Islam, isolating the contradictions between Shi'ite and Sunni sour…
A Handlist of Arabic Manuscripts (New Series) in the Princeton University Library
Averroes and the Metaphysics of Causation . Barry S. Kogan
Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums. Band 8
Theodicy in Islamic Thought
The first detailed study of Islamic theodicy, the book points out distinctively Islamic formulations and solutions of the problem of the best of all possible worlds" and shows where they coincide with Western versions, such as that of Leibniz. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton Unive…
Theodicy in Islamic Thought
The first detailed study of Islamic theodicy, the book points out distinctively Islamic formulations and solutions of the problem of the best of all possible worlds" and shows where they coincide with Western versions, such as that of Leibniz. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton Unive…
Averroes and the Metaphysics of Causation . Barry S. Kogan
Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums. Band 8
A Handlist of Arabic Manuscripts (New Series) in the Princeton University Library
The Silent Qur'an and the Speaking Qur'an
This is the first book to evaluate the writing of Islam's major scriptural sources within the context of the bloody conflicts that surrounded the succession of the Prophet. Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi rebuilds a Shi'ite understanding of Islam's early history and the genesis of its holy scriptures. At the same time, he proposes a fresh interpretative framework for the early history of Islam, isolating the contradictions between Shi'ite and Sunni sour…
Maimonides against the Mutakallimun
In his Guide of the Perplexed, Maimonides criticizes certain unnamed Muslim theologians, especially with regard to their views on possibility. Maimonides identifies these views as stemming from the theologians’ espousal of the notion of “intellectual admissibility.” By this, they seem to mean that whatever is conceivable is possible in actuality. Maimonides strongly rejects this notion, as it appears to undermine any rational order in the world. …
Robyn Creswell
Robyn Creswell opens his excellent study of a strangely neglected topic-Modernism in the Beirut of the 1950's-in dramatic fashion, as though it were a novel: 'It is a scene out of Balzac: a young man from the provinces arrives in the city, hoping to make his fame as a writer.'That 'young man' is the Syrian poet known-and now world-famous-as Adonis (Adūnīs in Arabic), born ‛Alī Aḥmad Sa‛īd Esber in 1930 to an Alawite family of farmers in a remote …
West-Eastern Divan
Philosophy (7 works) · History (5 works) · Islamic Studies and History (4 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (3 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (3 works) · Arabic (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works)