Malise Ruthven
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
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Cairo . Photos by Robert Azzi. Amsterdam: Time-Life Books, 1980
- Cairo . Photos by Robert Azzi. Translation of Alzbeta Lettowsky. Amsterdam: Time-Life International, 1980
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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
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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
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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
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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
- Literature by and about Malise Ruthven in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Malise Ruthven in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Malise Ruthven in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Malise Ruthven , at: The Guardian
Individual evidence
- ^ William Safire : Language: Islamofascism, anyone? , in: International Herald Tribune , October 1, 2006
- ↑ Malise Ruthven: Construing Islam as a language , in: The Independent , September 8, 1990
- ↑ Malise Ruthven: Encounters with Islam: on religion, politics and modernity . 2012, p. X
personal data | |
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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 |