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Bookmark or Share- The Satanic Verses - WikipediaThe Satanic Verses is the fourth novel of British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie. First published in September 1988, the book was inspired by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. As with his previous books, Rushdie used magical realism and relied on contemporary events and people to create his characters.
- The Satanic Verses | Synopsis, Fatwa, Controversy, & FactsThe 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 by Salman Rushdie | Goodreads65,841 ratings5,140 reviews. Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two figures, Gibreel Farishta, the biggest star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years, plummet from the sky, washing up on the ...
- Why Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses’ remains so controversial ...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. Muslims...
- The tangled history of the ‘Satanic Verses’ - Financial TimesLife & Arts. Add to myFT. The tangled history of the ‘Satanic Verses’. How a story from 1,400 years ago inspired Salman Rushdie’s novel and reawakened a long-buried theological question....
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