Malise Ruthven

Malise Ruthven is the author of Islam: A Very Short Introduction, Islam in the World: The Divine Supermarket (a study of Christian fundamentalism), A Fury for God: The Islamist Attack on America, and A Satanic Affair: Salman Rushdie and the Wrath of Islam.

From the Review

May 29, 2008: The Rise of the Muslim Terrorists

Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-first Century by Marc Sageman

The Talibanization of Southeast Asia: Losing the War on Terror to Islamist Extremists by Bilveer Singh

The Sayyid Qutb Reader: Selected Writings on Politics, Religion, and Society edited by Albert J. Bergesen

Al Qaeda in Its Own Words edited by Gilles Kepel and Jean-Pierre Milelli, translated from the Arabic by Pascale Ghazaleh

Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of al-Qaida Strategist Abu Mus'ab al-Suri by Brynjar Lia

Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari'a by Abdullahi Ahmed an-Na'im

How We Missed the Story: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and the Hijacking of Afghanistan by Roy Gutman

The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State by Noah Feldman

Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11 by Matthias Küntzel, translated from the German by Colin Meade

November 8, 2007: How to Understand Islam

Arguing the Just War in Islam by John Kelsay

Islam: Past, Present and Future by Hans Küng, translated from the German by John Bowden

Jihad in Islamic History: Doctrines and Practice by Michael Bonner

Secularism Confronts Islam by Olivier Roy, translated from the French by George Holoch

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

August 16, 2007: The Islamic Optimist

In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad by Tariq Ramadan

To Be a European Muslim by Tariq Ramadan

Western Muslims and the Future of Islam by Tariq Ramadan

Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity by Tariq Ramadan, translated by Said Amghar

The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad and the Roots of the Sunni-Shia Schism by Barnaby Rogerson