Malise Walter Maitland Knox Hore-Ruthven[1] (born 14 May 1942)[2] is anAnglo-Irishacademic andwriter.
Born in Dublin in 1942, Malise Ruthven was educated atEton College before earning anM.A. (Cantab.) inEnglish literature atTrinity College, Cambridge.[3] He then worked as ascriptwriter with the BBC Arabic andWorld Service, and as a consultant on Middle Eastern affairs.[4]
In 2000 Ruthven earned hisPhD inSocial and Political Sciences at theUniversity of Cambridge. Having pursued a career as a writer,journalist andteacher, he focuses his work onreligion,fundamentalism, and especiallyIslamic affairs.[citation needed]
He has taught Islamic studies, cultural history and comparative religion at theUniversity of Aberdeen, Scotland,Birkbeck College, University of London,UC-San Diego,Dartmouth College (New Hampshire, USA) andColorado College (Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA)[5]
He has given numerous lectures as an expert on the Middle East. He has been described byMadeleine Bunting forThe Guardian as "one of today's most perceptive observers and historians of religion".[6]
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Malise Ruthven's book reviews have appeared inThe Sunday Times,The Guardian,The Observer,The Times Literary Supplement,Prospect magazine andTheNew York Review of Books (NYR). His blog for theNYR, "Revolution by Latrine", won an award from theOverseas Press Club of America in April 2011.[citation needed]
He is a regular contributor to theNYR, where he has written articles and reviews on such topics asAl Qaeda,Islam in Europe, unanswered questions in theLockerbie crash and the repression ofgay people in Iran. He also contributes occasionally to the BBC. He used the term "Islamofascism" as early as 8 September 1990 inThe Independent. In 2004, London'sProspect magazine ranked Ruthven among the 100 top public intellectuals in the UK.[citation needed]
Malise Ruthven is the younger son ofPatrick Hore-Ruthven andPamela Margaret Fletcher.
His elder brother wasGrey Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie andAlexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, was his grandfather.
He is the godson of the late DameFreya Stark, whom his parents knew inCairo in 1942; Ruthven published several collections of Stark's photographs.[citation needed]
Ruthven contributed an afterword to the most recent edition ofAlbert Hourani'sHistory 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.[citation needed]
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