Malise Ruthven

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Malise Walter Maitland Knox Hore-Ruthven (born May 14, 1942 in Dublin ) is a British author and expert on Islam.

Life

Malise Ruthven is a son of the British writer Patrick Hore-Ruthven, who died as a soldier in Tripoli in 1942 , his grandfather Alexander Hore-Ruthven was Governor General of Australia . His older brother Gray Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie is a conservative British cultural politician. He is the godchild of Freya Stark , of whom he edited several photo volumes.

Ruthven studied literature at Cambridge University , where she received her doctorate in political science. He started out as an editor at the BBC . He specialized in religious and Middle Eastern issues and publishes in this area. Ruthven works as a political advisor and has taught at several universities in the UK and the US.

Ruthven is considered to be the creator of the term Islam fascism : Authoritarian government, not to say 'Islamo-fascism' is the rule rather than the exception from Morocco to Pakistan. Ruthven himself relativizes both his first authorship and the sharpness of this term.

Fonts (selection)

  • Torture: The Grand Conspiracy . London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978 ISBN 0-297-77389-5
  • Cairo . Photos by Robert Azzi. Amsterdam: Time-Life Books, 1980
    • Cairo . Photos by Robert Azzi. Translation of Alzbeta Lettowsky. Amsterdam: Time-Life International, 1980
  • Islam in the World . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984 ISBN 0-19-520454-9
    • Be Guardians of the Earth: The Mind of Islam . Hedda Pänke in Romanian. Edited by Monika Dahncke. Frankfurt / M .: Ullstein, 1987
  • Traveler Through Time: A Photographic Journey with Freya Stark . London: Viking, 1986 ISBN 0-670-80183-6
  • The Divine Supermarket: Travels in Search of the Soul of America . London: Chatto, 1989 ISBN 0-7011-3151-9
    • The Divine Supermarket: In Search of the Soul of America . Translation Werner Richter. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 1991
  • A Satanic Affair: Salman Rushdie and the Rage of Islam . London: Chatto, 1990 ISBN 0-7011-3591-3
  • Albert Hourani : A History of the Arab Peoples . London: Faber, 1991, 2002
    • Albert Hourani: The History of the Arab Peoples. Told on until the Arab Spring by Malise Ruthven . Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 2014, ISBN 978-3-10-031836-7 .
  • (Ed.): Freya Stark in the Levant: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine . Reading: Garnet Publishing, 1994 ISBN 1-85964-003-6
  • (Ed.): Freya Stark in Iraq and Kuwait . Reading: Garnet Publishing, 1994 ISBN 1-85964-004-4
  • (Ed.): Freya Stark in Persia . Reading: Garnet Publishing, 1994 ISBN 1-85964-011-7
  • Islam: A Very Short Introduction . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000 ISBN 0-19-285389-9
    • Islam: a brief introduction . Translation by Matthias Jendis . Stuttgart: Reclam, 2000
  • A Fury for God: the Islamist Attack on America . London: Granta, 2002 ISBN 1-86207-540-9
  • Fundamentalism: the Search for Meaning . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 ISBN 0-19-284091-6
  • with Azim Nanji: Historical Atlas of the Islamic World . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 ISBN 0-19-860997-3
  • Encounters with Islam: on religion, politics and modernity . London: IB Tauris, 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William Safire : Language: Islamofascism, anyone? , in: International Herald Tribune , October 1, 2006
  2. ↑ Malise Ruthven: Construing Islam as a language , in: The Independent , September 8, 1990
  3. ↑ Malise Ruthven: Encounters with Islam: on religion, politics and modernity . 2012, p. X


personal data
SURNAME Ruthven, Malise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hore-Ruthven, Malise Walter Maitland Knox (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author and expert on Islam
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin