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The title refers to the Satanic Verses, a group of Quranic verses about three pagan Meccan goddesses: Allāt, Al-Uzza, and Manāt. The part of the story that deals with the satanic verses was based on accounts from the historians al-Waqidi and al-Tabari.
Apr 17, 2024 · The Satanic Verses is a magic realist epic novel by Indian-born writer Salman Rushdie that upon its publication in 1988 became one of the most controversial books of the late 20th century. Its fanciful and satiric use of Islam struck some Muslims as blasphemous, and Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against it in 1989.
The Satanic Verses are words of "satanic suggestion" which the Islamic prophet Muhammad is alleged to have mistaken for divine revelation. The first use of the expression in English is attributed to Sir William Muir in 1858.
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).
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...
Mar 11, 2008 · 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 19, 2022 · How a story from 1,400 years ago inspired Salman Rushdie’s novel and reawakened a long-buried theological question. Teaching Islam at the university mosque of Al-Azhar in Cairo in the 19th ...
Finally, The Satanic Verses confronts the problem of religion and modern life in such a direct and profound way that it has been banned in India, Pakistan, South Africa, and all the Arab countries.…
About The Satanic Verses #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[A] torrent of endlessly inventive prose, by turns comic and enraged, embracing life in all its contradictions. In this spectacular novel, verbal pyrotechnics barely outshine its psychological truths.”—Newsday Winner of the Whitbread Prize
Feb 23, 2011 · The Satanic Verses: A Novel. Salman Rushdie. Random House Publishing Group, Feb 23, 2011 - Fiction - 576 pages. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “ [A] torrent of endlessly inventive prose, by turns...
