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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 book, “Satanic Verses,” goes to the heart of Muslim religious beliefs when Rushdie, in dream sequences, challenges and sometimes seems to mock some of its most sensitive tenets.
Because of his treatment of sensitive religious and political subjects, particularly in his novel The Satanic Verses (1988), Rushdie has been the target of death threats and violent attacks and a central figure in debates about free speech and censorship.
In 1989, Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for Muslims to kill Rushdie for the blasphemous crime of having written The Satanic Verses. A phantasmagoric epic drawing one of its central episodes from a contested piece of Islamic mythology in which Mohammed transcribes some Koranic verses dictated by Satan, the novel was condemned ...
One of the most controversial books in recent literary history, Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses,” was published three decades ago and almost immediately set off angry demonstrations...
The incident of the Satanic Verses is put forward by some critics as evidence of the Quran's origins as a human work of Muhammad.
A key case was the 1989 fatwa against English author Salman Rushdie for his 1988 book entitled The Satanic Verses, the title of which refers to an account that Muhammad, in the course of revealing the Quran, received a revelation from Satan and incorporated it therein until made by Allah to retract it.
