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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.
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.
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.
Rushdie returns to the literary scene with a memoir recounting the violent attack he suffered on stage Salman Rushdie: Author of Knife and The Satanic Verses reflects on 2022 attempt on his life ...
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 the abolition of Britain's ...
Spouse. Masako Igarashi [ ja] Hitoshi Igarashi (五十嵐 一, Igarashi Hitoshi, 10 June 1947 – 11 July 1991) was a Japanese scholar of Arabic and Persian literature and history and the Japanese translator of Salman Rushdie 's novel The Satanic Verses. He was murdered in the wake of fatwas issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran – who ...
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Sir Salman’s fourth novel led to death threats in Iran in the 1980s. Rushdie’s Satanic Verses would probably not be published today, says Adichie Skip to main content