Thirty years on, why 'The Satanic Verses' remains so controversial
- Written by Myriam Renaud, Ph.D. Candidate in Religious Thought and Ethics, University of Chicago
One of the most controversial books in recent literary history, Salman Rushdie’s“The Satanic Verses,” was published three decades ago this month and almost immediately set off angry demonstrations all over the world, some of them violent.
A year later, in 1989, Iran’s supreme leader, the Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa,...
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