top public intellectuals in the UK. Teacher He has taught Islamic studies, cultural history and comparative religion at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, Birkbeck College, University of London, UC-San Diego, Dartmouth College (New Hampshire, USA) and Colorado College (Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA) He has given numerous lectures as an expert on the Middle East. He has been described by Madeleine Bunting for The Guardian as "one of today's most perceptive observers and historians of religion". Family Malise Ruthven is the younger son of Patrick Hore-Ruthven and Pamela Margaret Fletcher. His elder brother was the Grey Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie and Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, was his grandfather. He is the godson of the late Dame Freya Stark, whom his parents knew in Cairo in 1942; Ruthven published several collections of Stark's photographs. Publications Books Torture: The Grand Conspiracy (1978). London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Traveller Through Time: A Photographic Journey with Freya Stark (1986). London: Viking. The Divine Supermarket: Travels in Search of the Soul of America (1989). London: Chatto. A Satanic Affair: Salman Rushdie and the Rage of Islam (1990). London: Chatto. Freya Stark in the Levant: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine (1994) Reading: Garnet Publishing Freya Stark in Iraq and Kuwait (1994) Reading: Garnet Publishing Freya Stark in Persia (1994) Reading: Garnet Publishing Islam: A Very Short Introduction (2000). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Fury for God: the Islamist Attack on America (2002). London: Granta. Fundamentalism: the Search for Meaning (2004). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Historical Atlas of the Islamic World (2004). (with Azim Nanji). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Islam in the World (1984, 1999, 2006). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Articles Recorded lectures Gnostic themes in the Abrahamic family of religions, Malise Ruthven, British Museum, Middle East Now podcast series, April to September 2006 References 1942 births Living people Irish educators Irish scholars and academics Writers from Dublin (city) Irish people of British descent Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Malise