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5,335 words, approx. 18 pages
For the novel by Salman Rushdie, see The Satanic Verses. For the controversy over the novel by Salman Rushdie, see The Satanic Verses controversy. Satanic Verses is an expression coined by the historian Sir William Muir in reference to several verses...


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The Washington Post
Norwegian Publisher of `Satanic Verses' Is Shot
10/12/1993: 437 words, approx. 2 pages
The Norwegian publisher of Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" was shot and wounded outside his home near Oslo today, marking the third attack on professionals who have had a hand in publishing the book. William Nygaard, 50, was in serious but stable condition...
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The Boston Globe
A Flip-flop On 'satanic Verses'
02/23/1989: 729 words, approx. 2 pages
In a strange role reversal between humble and mighty, small booksellers were defiant yesterday in their determination to sell "The Satanic Verses," despite Iranian leader Khomeini's death sentence against British author Salman Rushdie. A storm of criticism on television, newspapers and in the...
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AP News
Pakistan, Iran protest Rushdie award
6/20/2007: 379 words, approx. 1 pages
Pakistan and Iran have summoned their British ambassadors to protest that author Salman Rushdie, accused of insulting Islam in his novel "The Satanic Verses," was to be honored with a knighthood.Iranian Foreign Ministry official Ebrahim Rahimpour told the British ambassador to Tehran, Geoffrey Adams, that...
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Iran condemns knighthood for Rushdie
6/17/2007: 372 words, approx. 1 pages
Iran on Sunday condemned Britain's decision to knight Salman Rushdie, the author who was forced into hiding for a decade after the leader of the Iranian revolution ordered his assassination.Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said granting Britain's highest honor to Rushdie, whose novel...
 


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Shiraz Dossa
4,142 words, approx. 14 pages
In the following essay, Dossa explains the tension between Western postmodern ideals of freedom—which, he argues, are infused with a rigid and imperialist misunderstanding of other cultures—and traditional "third-world" cultures and argues that Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses relies on both medieval and postmodern European and American stereotypes of Islam, offering no alternatives to the society he criticizes.


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