Malise Ruthven

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Dr. The Honourable Malise Ruthven (born 1942) is a Scottish writer and historian who focuses his work on religion, fundamentalism, and especially Islamic affairs. Ruthven is a current scriptwriter with the BBC Arabic and world Service, and a consultant on Middle Eastern affairs.^[1] He was also a professor of Islamic Studies and Comparative Religion that taught at the University of Aberdeen, the University of California, San Diego, and Dartmouth College.^{[citation needed]} He used the term "Islamofascism" as early as 8 September 1990 in The Independent.

Ruthven is the younger son of Major The Hon. Alexander Hardinge Patrick Hore-Ruthven and Pamela Margaret Fletcher His elder brother, Grey Ruthven, is 2nd Earl of Gowrie. Ruthven is the godson of Freya Stark, whom his parents knew in Cairo in 1942, and has published several collections of her photographs.^{[citation needed]}

He has also contributed an afterword to the most recent edition of Albert Hourani's History of the Arab Peoples, bringing that work up to date following Hourani's death.

[edit] References

^ Oxford University Press: Islam in the World: Malise Ruthven

[edit] Bibliography

Fundamentalism: the search for meaning (2004). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-284091-6
Historical Atlas of the Islamic World (2004). (with Azim Nanji). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860997-3
Fury for God: the Islamist attack on America (2002). London: Granta. ISBN 1-86207-540-9
Islam: a very short introduction (2000). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-285389-9
Satanic Affair: Salman Rushdie and the rage of Islam (1990). London: Chatto. ISBN 0-7011-3591-3
The divine supermarket : travels in search of the soul of America (1989). London: Chatto. ISBN 0-7011-3151-9
Islam in the World (1984). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-520454-9
Torture: the grand conspiracy (1978). London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-77389-5