Malise Ruthven

Malise Ruthven has written many books on Islam and the Middle East, among them Islam in the World, Fundamentalism and Encounters with Islam.

In the LRB Archive:

• The Saudi Trillions · 7 September 2017

• More than a Religion: ‘What Is Islam?’ · 8 September 2016

  • What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic by Shahab Ahmed

• Tower of Skulls: Baghdad · 23 October 2014

  • Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood by Justin Marozzi

• Our Deputy Sheriffs in the Middle East · 16 October 1997

  • A Brutal Friendship: The West and the Arab Elite by Said Aburish

• Politics and the Prophet · 1 August 1996

  • Lords of the Lebanese Marches: Violence and Narrative in an Arab Society by Michael Gilsenan
  • The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World edited by John L. Esposito
  • Unfolding Islam by P.J. Stewart
  • Islam and the Myth of Confrontation: Religion and Politics in the Middle East by Fred Halliday

• The Shrinking Sphere · 6 July 1995

  • Islamic Britain: Religion, Politics and Identity among British Muslims by Philip Lewis
  • The Failure of Political Islam by Olivier Roy, translated by Carol Volk

• Was Weber wrong? · 18 August 1994

  • The Revenge of God: The Resurgence of Islam, Christianity and Judaism in the Modern World by Gilles Kepel
  • Pious Passion: The Emergence of Modern Fundamentalism in the United States and Iran by Martin Riesebrodt

• Rambo and Revelation · 9 September 1993

  • Fire and Blood: The True Story of David Koresh and the Waco Siege by David Leppard
  • Preacher of Death: The Shocking Inside Story of David Koresh and the Waco Siege by Martin King and Marc Breault

• Starting over · 9 July 1987

  • Cities on a Hill by Frances FitzGerald

• Making history · 19 June 1986

  • Gertrude Bell by Susan Goodman
  • Freya Stark by Caroline Moorehead

• The Fall of the Shah · 4 July 1985

  • Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuściński, translated by William Brand
  • The Pride and the Fall: Iran 1974-1979 by Anthony Parsons
  • Iran under the Ayatollahs by Dilip Hiro
  • Obbligato: Notes on a Foreign Service Career by William Sullivan
  • Envoy to the Middle World: Adventures in Diplomacy by George McGhee
  • The Persians amongst the English by Denis Wright

• Golden Horn · 1 March 1984

  • Pierre Loti: Portrait of an Escapist by Lesley Blanch

• Infidels · 2 June 1983

  • The Helen Smith Story by Paul Foot and Ron Smith

• Malise Ruthven discusses the Beirut massacre · 4 November 1982

• Fundamentalisms · 1 July 1982

  • Two Minutes over Baghdad by Amos Perlmutter, Michael Handel and Uri Bar-Joseph
  • Inside the Middle East by Dilip Hiro
  • America Held Hostage: The Secret Negotiations by Pierre Salinger

• Arabs · 18 February 1982

  • Covering Islam by Edward Said
  • Heart-Beguiling Araby by Kathryn Tidrick
  • Inside the Iranian Revolution by John Stempel
  • The Return of the Ayatollah by Mohamed Heikal
  • Sadat by David Hirst and Irene Beeson

• The Family · 17 December 1981

  • The House of Saud by David Holden and Richard Johns
  • The Kingdom by Robert Lacey

• Onward Muslim Soldiers · 1 October 1981

  • Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey by V.S. Naipaul
  • Muslim Society by Ernest Gellner

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