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The epistles in this volume deal with life and death, pleasure and pain, and the diversity of languages. Written in a lively and genial style, they are less technical than other epistles in the Ras¿'il. While drawing on antiquity and early Islamic teachings, they are often playful, enlivening their arguments with fables and parables.
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Eric Ormsby was educated at Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton University (PhD, 1981). He has had a varied and distinguished career, teaching for twenty years at McGill University, Montreal, where from 1996 he was Professor and Director of the Institute of Islamic Studies. From 2005 until 2013, he worked at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, first as a Senior Research Associate and then as Chief Librarian. In addition to his extensive publications on Classical Arabic literature and Islamic thought, and his translations from Arabic, Persian, French and German, he has published seven poetry collections. He is also an essayist and reviewer and the author of critical works on poetry and translation.
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The epistles in this volume deal with life and death, pleasure and pain, and the diversity of languages. Written in a lively and genial style, they are less technical than other epistles in the Rasa'il. While drawing on antiquity and early Islamic teachings, they are often playful, enlivening their arguments with fables and parables.
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What is also useful are Ormsby's comments on how he set about translating each of this epistles, balancing readability, accuracy, literal rendition, and technical communication.
