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Sep 25, 2018 · One of the most controversial books in recent literary history, Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses,” was published three decades ago this month and almost immediately set off angry...
Jun 13, 2005 · One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight.
Aug 12, 2022 · Fri 12 Aug 2022 14.36 EDT. When Salman Rushdie wrote his novel The Satanic Verses in September 1988, he thought its many references to Islam might cause some ripples. “I expected a few...
Aug 13, 2022 · The controversy began after Rushdie published his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, in 1988. The story centers on two Indian Muslims living in England. It reimagines parts of the Prophet...
Salman Rushdie. Historicity debate. Related traditions. See also. Notes. References. External links. Commentators. Satanic Verses. The Satanic Verses are words of "satanic suggestion" which the Islamic prophet Muhammad is alleged to have mistaken for divine revelation. [1] .
Sep 26, 1988 · The Satanic Verses (1988), novel of Indian-born British writer Salman Rushdie led Ruholla Khomeini, the ayatollah of Iran, to demand his execution and then forced him into hiding; his other works include Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker prize, and The Moor's Last Sigh (1995).
One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight.
