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Malise Ruthven


Born
Dublin, Ireland
Genre
Religion, History


Malise Ruthven is the author of Islam in the World, The Divine Supermarket: Shopping for God in America, A Satanic Affair: Salman Rushdie and the Wrath of Islam and several other books. His Islam: A Very Short Introduction has been published in several languages, including Chinese, Korean, Romanian, Polish, Italian and German.

A former scriptwriter with the BBC Arabic and World Services, Dr Ruthven holds an MA in English Literature and a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University. He has taught Islamic studies, cultural history and comparative religion at the University of Aberdeen, the University of California, San Diego, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire and Colorado College.

Now a full-time writer, he is currently work ...more

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Average rating: 3.51 · 2,073 ratings · 275 reviews · 39 distinct works • Similar authors
Islam: A Very Short Introdu...
3.28 avg rating — 1,086 ratings — published 1997 — 30 editions
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Fundamentalism: A Very Shor...
3.60 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions
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Islam in the World
3.76 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1984 — 17 editions
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Fundamentalism: The Search ...
3.32 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions
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Unholy Kingdom: Religion, C...
3.20 avg rating — 49 ratings — 4 editions
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A Fury for God: The Islamis...
3.67 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions
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Historical Atlas of Islam
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3.81 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions
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The Divine Supermarket: Tra...
3.34 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1989 — 11 editions
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Torture: The grand conspiracy
3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1978 — 2 editions
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SATANIC AFFAIR RUSHDIE
3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions
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