The Rushdie Affair: The Novel, the Ayatollah, and the West by Daniel Pipes

The Rushdie Affair: The Novel, the Ayatollah, and the West

Daniel Pipes

303 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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The publication in 1988 of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses triggered a furor that pitted much of the Islamic world against the West over issues of blasphemy and freedom of expression. The controversy soon took on the aspect of a confront...

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