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   What are Satanic Verses?

   • At its centre is the episode of the so-called satanic verses, in which the prophet first proclaims a revelation requiring the adoption of three of the old polytheistic deities, but later renounces this as an error induced by the Devil.

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   Who wrote The Satanic Verses?

   • The 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.

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   Is the Satanic Verses a good book?

   • A book whose importance is eclipsed only by its quality, The Satanic Verses is a key work of our times. Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel “A staggering achievement, brilliantly enjoyable.” —Nadine Gordimer “ [A] torrent of endlessly inventive prose, by turns comic and enraged, embracing life in all its contradictions.

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   Are the Satanic Verses blasphemous?

   • Many Muslim clergy deemed the tale to which the title referred a heretical lie, and the novel blasphemous. But many centuries ago, the story of what came to be known as the Satanic Verses had been accepted by, or at least passed on by Muslim historians.

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   When did Salman Rushdie write the Satanic Verses?

   • In 2024 he published Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, a memoir of the attack and his subsequent recovery. 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.

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   What is the theme of the Satanic Verses?

   • The incident of the Satanic Verses, according to him, conforms to the common theme of persecution followed by isolation of the prophet-figure.

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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.

   • Author: Salman Rushdie

   • Publish Year: 1988

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   Sep 25, 2018 · 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.

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   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.

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   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).

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   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.

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   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 ...

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   Jun 13, 2005 · 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.