Almond, Ian
Ian Almond is a British academic who teaches English Literature at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He has lived in many other parts of the world: Germany, Italy, India, and Turkey, where he taught for six years at Bogazici University in Istanbul. Almond considers himself to be a Christian Socialist. Besides the two books featured in his Rorotoko interviews, Two Faiths, One Banner (Harvard University Press/I.B.Tauris, 2009) and History of Islam in German Thought (Routledge, 2009), Ian Almond is also the author of Sufism and Deconstruction (Routledge, 2004), and The New Orientalists: Postmodern Representations of Islam (I.B.Tauris, 2007). His books have been translated into Arabic, Korean, Persian, Bosnian and Indonesian.
Featured interviews on Rorotoko
How truly wild, bizarre, and contradictory the attitudes towards Islam were—and sometimes are
Ian Almond on his book History of Islam in German Thought: From Leibniz to Nietzsche (December 21, 2009)
The idea of a Christian Europe is simply a case of historical amnesia
Ian Almond on his book Two Faiths, One Banner: When Muslims Marched with Christians across Europe’s Battlegrounds (April 28, 2009)
