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- He wrote in Joseph Anton that his father adopted the name Rushdie in honour of Averroes (Ibn Rushd).
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Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie CH FRSL (/ s ʌ l ˈ m ɑː n ˈ r ʊ ʃ d i / sul-MAHN RUUSH-dee; [2] born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. [3] His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations , typically ...
23 hours ago · Salman Rushdie (born June 19, 1947, Bombay [now Mumbai], India) is an Indian-born British-American writer whose allegorical novels examine historical and philosophical issues by means of surreal characters, brooding humor, and an effusive and melodramatic prose style.
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- Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British writer whose allegorical novels examine historical and philosophical issues. He is known for his novels, i...
- Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, on June 19, 1947.
- Salman Rushdie received the Booker Prize in 1981 for Midnight’s Children. The novel is a fable about modern India and became an unexpected critical...
- Salman Rushdie was knighted in 2007.
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.
In the 17 years since Ayatollah Khomeini passed a death sentence on Salman Rushdie, the writer's unflinching criticism of the religion into which he was born has never been stifled. Now, as the...
Aug 12, 2022 · Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay - now known as Mumbai - two months before Indian independence from Britain.
Feb 3, 2022 · And when he had a son, that son took on the family’s new name.Salman Rushdie’s father chose his new surname to reflect his admiration of Ibn Rushd, the great 12th-century scholar,defender of Aristotle, and the most effective defender of Islam from the literalists, the doctrinairians.
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Aug 15, 2022 · (Supplied: Pengiun Books) The 75-year-old was born into a Muslim Kashmiri family in Bombay, now Mumbai, before moving to the UK. He now lives in New York City as a US citizen. Rushdie is a self-described lapsed Muslim and "hardline atheist". Why would someone want to kill him?
