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, A Satanic Affair: Salman Rushdie and the Wrath of Islam, and several other books. A selection of essays, Encounters with Islam, will be published in spring 2012.
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The Revolutionary Shias
December 22, 2011
Shi’ism: A Religion of Protest
by Hamid Dabashi
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Storm Over Syria
June 9, 2011
The Other Side of the Mirror: An American Travels Through Syria
by Brooke Allen
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The Birth of Islam: A Different View
April 7, 2011
Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam
by Fred M. Donner
Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East
by Bernard Lewis
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Righteous & Wrong
August 19, 2010
The Flight of the Intellectuals
by Paul Berman
Nomad: From Islam to America
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Terror and Liberalism
by Paul Berman
Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents
by Ian Buruma
Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name
by Timothy Garton Ash
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Excremental India
May 13, 2010
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The Big Muslim Problem!
December 17, 2009
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West
by Christopher Caldwell
What I Believe
by Tariq Ramadan
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Deception Over Lockerbie?
October 8, 2009
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Ahmadinejad’s Brutal Campaign Against Gays
August 13, 2009
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‘Life Without Lawyers’
August 13, 2009
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Divided Iran on the Eve
July 2, 2009
Apocalyptic Islam and Iranian Shi’ism
by Abbas Amanat
Sexual Politics in Modern Iran
by Janet Afary
Guardians of the Revolution: Iran and the World in the Age of the Ayatollahs
by Ray Takeyh
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The Rise of the Muslim Terrorists
May 29, 2008
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
Al Qaeda in Its Own Words
edited by Gilles Kepel and Jean-Pierre Milelli, translated from the Arabic by Pascale Ghazaleh
The Sayyid Qutb Reader: Selected Writings on Politics, Religion, and Society
edited by Albert J. Bergesen
Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11
by Matthias Küntzel, translated from the German by Colin Meade
Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of al-Qaida Strategist Abu Mus’ab al-Suri
by Brynjar Lia
The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State
by Noah Feldman
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
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How to Understand Islam
November 8, 2007
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
Infidel
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Secularism Confronts Islam
by Olivier Roy, translated from the French by George Holoch
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The Islamic Optimist
August 16, 2007
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
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The New European Far-Right
August 9, 2011
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Why Are the Muhammad Cartoons Still Inciting Violence?
February 9, 2011
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Delhi's Poor: Revolution by Latrine?
April 8, 2010
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Talibans à la française?
February 2, 2010