The Rushdie Affair
The Novel, the Ayatollah and the West
Publisher: A Birch Lane Press Book, New York, USA
Year First Published: {23397 The Rushdie Affair RUSHDIE AFFAIR The Novel, the Ayatollah and the West A Birch Lane Press Book New York, USA This is an account of the controversy surrounding Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses. Following the novel's publication in London in 1988, the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issued an edict condemning the author and his publishers to death for blasphemy. Part I "focuses on two texts, The Satanic Verses and Ayatollah Khomeini's edict, and attempts to explain why the one led to the other.... Part II surveys the responses to the texts, from conspiracy theories in Iran to petitions in the United States, then considers the implications of this controversy. Two issues receive special attention: the... problem of censorship... {and the} questions raised by millions of Muslims living in the West." 1990 2003 303pp $24.95 B Book 0765809966 1 false false true CA23397.htm [0xc002375ec0 0xc00022d680] Ca}
Year Published: 2003
Pages: 303pp Price: $24.95 ISBN: 0765809966
Resource Type: Book
This is an account of the controversy surrounding Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses. Following the novel's publication in London in 1988, the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issued an edict condemning the author and his publishers to death for blasphemy. Part I "focuses on two texts, The Satanic Verses and Ayatollah Khomeini's edict, and attempts to explain why the one led to the other.... Part II surveys the responses to the texts, from conspiracy theories in Iran to petitions in the United States, then considers the implications of this controversy. Two issues receive special attention: the... problem of censorship... {and the} questions raised by millions of Muslims living in the West."
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