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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.
For François Dupuis-Déri (Columbia University), Pipes book can be understood in the neoconservative idea of the "Clash of Civilizations". [ 5 ] According to Emilie Réné, in Les Cahiers du CERI (CERI is a French public institution in political science), Pipes' essay "suffers from oversimplification ".
The part of the story that deals with the satanic verses was based on accounts from the historians al-Waqidi and al-Tabari. [1] The book was a 1988 Booker Prize finalist (losing to Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda), and won the 1988 Whitbread Award for novel of the year. [2]
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Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie [2] CH FRSL (/ s ʌ l ˈ m ɑː n ˈ r ʊ ʃ d i / sul-MAHN RUUSH-dee; [3] born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British and American novelist. [4] His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent.
Sir Salman Rushdie has laid bare his horror at lying in “a spectacular quantity of blood” after the frenzied onstage attack that very nearly claimed his life two years ago.. The British-Indian ...
In his new book, Knife: Meditations After An Attempted Murder, Sir Salman has recounted his experience of the near-fatal incident and the aftermath. Salman Rushdie reveals in new book he had a ...
India’s ban on the import of Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses is under scrutiny - here's why.