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Malise Ruthven (born 14 May 1942) is an Anglo-Irish academic and writer. 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.〔(Oxford University Press: Islam in the World: Malise Ruthven )〕 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. ==Writer== As a writer, he wrote: * ''Islam in the World'' (OUP, 1984, 1991, 2006) * ''Torture: The Grand Conspiracy'' (Weidenfeld, 1978) * ''Cairo'' (Time-Life, 1980) * ''Traveller Through Time: A Photographic Journey with Freya Stark'' (Viking, 1986) * ''The Divine Supermarket: Shopping for God in America'' (Chatto & Windus, nominated for the 1989 Thomas Cook Travel Award) * ''A Satanic Affair: Salman Rushdie and the Wrath of Islam'' (Chatto & Windus, 1989) * ''Islam: A Very Short Introduction'' (OUP, 1997, 2000; this has been published in several languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Romanian, Polish, Serbo-Croat, Italian, German and Spanish) * ''A Fury for God: The Islamist Attack on America'' (Granta, 2002) * ''Fundamentalism: The Search for Meaning'' (OUP 2004, Dutch and Bulgarian translations) * ''A Historical Atlas of the Islamic World'' (with Azim Nanji; OUP/Harvard University Press, 2004; won the 2005 US Middle East Outreach Council Book Award) Ruthven 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. Dr Ruthven is internationally recognised for his work on Muslim thought and theology, fundamentalism, Mormonism, the social impact of religion and migration and the nexus between contemporary politics and belief. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Malise Ruthven」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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