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The Satanic Verses is the fourth novel of the British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie. First published in September 1988, the book was inspired by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. As with his previous books, Rushdie used magical realism and relied on contemporary events and people to create his characters.
The Satanic Verses controversy, also known as the Rushdie Affair, was a controversy sparked by the 1988 publication of Salman Rushdie 's novel The Satanic Verses. It centered on the novel's references to the Satanic Verses ( apocryphal verses of the Quran), and came to include a larger debate about censorship and religious violence.
This entire matter was a mere footnote to the back-and-forth of religious debate, [citation needed] but was rekindled by Salman Rushdie's 1988 novel, The Satanic Verses, which made headline news. The novel contains some fictionalized allusions to Islamic history, which provoked both controversy and outrage.
Rushdie returns to the literary scene with a memoir recounting the violent attack he suffered on stage
Sir Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses (Adam Butler/PA) The novel is a parable of contemporary Britain and India and the conflict of good and evil, represented by two survivors from a ...
A Brief History of Blasphemy. A Brief History of Blasphemy: Liberalism, Censorship and the Satanic Verses is a 1990 book by Richard Webster, in which the author discusses the controversy over Salman Rushdie 's novel The Satanic Verses (1988). Webster critiques the freedom to blaspheme, and argues against The Crime of Blasphemy (which advocated ...
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PR6068.U757 H37 1990. Followed by. Luka and the Fire of Life. Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a 1990 children's novel [1] by Salman Rushdie. It is Rushdie's fifth major publication and followed The Satanic Verses (1988). It is a phantasmagorical story that begins in a city so miserable and ruinous that it has forgotten its name.