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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.
The Satanic Verses is the fourth novel from the Indian ... The novel has been accused of blasphemy for its reference to the "Satanic Verses". Pakistan banned the book ...
India’s ban on the import of author Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses has been overturned by the Delhi High Court due to a remarkable situation – the original notification cannot be found ...
Shahab Ahmed, author of a book on the satanic verses in early Islam, observed that in the era of early tafsirs and sīrah/maghazi literature, the satanic verses incident was near universally accepted by the early Muslim community and illustrative of a concept of prophethood involving an ongoing struggle. Later, it was rejected when the logic of ...
The Satanic Verses (1988) Salman Rushdie: 1988 Novel Banned for blasphemy against Islam. Salman received a fatwa for his alleged blasphemy [31] Naree (1992) Humayun Azad: 1992 Criticism Banned in Bangladesh in 1995, [32] though the ban was later lifted in 2000. [33] Lajja (1993) Taslima Nasrin: 1993 Novel Banned in Bangladesh, [34] [35] and a ...
People can be afraid of books, and crucially, they can make others afraid of them, too.View Entire Post ›
The attack occurred after Sir Salman spent years in hiding because of threats to his life after his novel The Satanic Verses was published in 1988. Warning: This story contains distressing details
The Satanic Verses: Salman Rushdie: This book cannot be imported into India. [32] Import ban was imposed after Muslim groups protested that it was blasphemous and hurt their religious sentiments. [19] India was the first country to ban this book. [20] 1989 Soft Target: How the Indian Intelligence Service Penetrated Canada: Zuhair Kashmeri and ...