Malise Ruthven

Malise Ruthven is the author of Islam: A Very Short Introduction; Islam in the World; The Divine Supermarket; Shopping for God in America and A Satanic Affair: Salman Rushdie and the Wrath of Islam. A former writer and editor with the BBC s External Services, he has taught and lectured widely in Britain and the United States on religion and the Middle East. He has written for TLS, and Guardian, and divides his time between London and Normandy.