Malise Ruthven
Malise Walter Maitland Knox Hore-Ruthven[1] (born 14 May 1942)[2] is an Anglo-Irish academic and writer who has specialised in work on Islam and Muslims.
Born in Dublin in 1942, he earned an MA in English Literature at Cambridge University, before working as a scriptwriter with the BBC Arabic and World Service, and a consultant on Middle Eastern affairs.[3]
He earned his PhD in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University. Having pursued a career as a writer, journalist and teacher, he focuses his work on religion, fundamentalism, and especially Islamic affairs.
University work
Ruthven has taught Islamic studies, cultural history and comparative religion at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, Birkbeck College, University of London, UC-San Diego, Dartmouth College (New Hampshire, USA) and Colorado College (Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA)[4]
He has been described by Madeleine Bunting for The Guardian as "one of today's most perceptive observers and historians of religion".[5]
Family
Malise Ruthven is the younger son of Patrick Hore-Ruthven and Pamela Margaret Fletcher. His elder brother is Grey Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie. Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, was his grandfather. He is the godson of the late Dame Freya Stark, whom his parents knew in Cairo in 1942.
Publications
- Books
- Torture: The Grand Conspiracy (1978). London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Template:ISBN
- Islam in the World (1984, 1999, 2006). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Template:ISBN
- Traveller Through Time: A Photographic Journey with Freya Stark (1986). London: Viking. Template:ISBN
- The Divine Supermarket: Travels in Search of the Soul of America (1989). London: Chatto. Template:ISBN
- A Satanic Affair: Salman Rushdie and the Rage of Islam (1990). London: Chatto. Template:ISBN
- Freya Stark in the Levant: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine (1994) Reading: Garnet Publishing Template:ISBN
- Freya Stark in Iraq and Kuwait (1994) Reading: Garnet Publishing Template:ISBN
- Freya Stark in Persia (1994) Reading: Garnet Publishing Template:ISBN
- Islam: A Very Short Introduction (2000). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Template:ISBN
- Fury for God: the Islamist Attack on America (2002). London: Granta. Template:ISBN
- Fundamentalism: the Search for Meaning (2004). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Template:ISBN
- Historical Atlas of the Islamic World (2004). (with Azim Nanji). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Template:ISBN
References
- ↑ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage 2003, vol 2, pg 1615
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- ↑ Oxford University Press: Islam in the World: Malise Ruthven, oup.com; accessed 23 July 2017.
- ↑ Malise Ruthven's profile at Oxford University Press website Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 4 June 2011.
- ↑ Review: Fundamentalism by Malise Ruthven. 29 May 2004.
