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The Satanic Verses

• Author : Salman Rushdie
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 19,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2010-10-10
• Genre: Uncategoriezed
• Pages : null
• ISBN 10 : 1409058867

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The Rushdie Affair

• Author : Daniel Pipes
• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 6,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2017-09-29
• Genre: Literary Criticism
• Pages : 303
• ISBN 10 : 9781351474795

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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 confrontation of civilizations, provoking powerful emotions on a global level. It involved censorship, protests, riots, a break in diplomatic relations, culminating in the notorious Iranian edict calling for the death of the novelist. In The Rushdie Affair, Daniel Pipes explains why the publication of The Satanic Verses became a cataclysmic event with far-reaching political and social consequences.Pipes looks at the Rushdie affair in both its political and cultural aspects and shows in considerable detail what the fundamentalists perceived as so offensive in The Satanic Verses as against what Rushdie's novel actually said. Pipes explains how the book created a new crisis between Iran and the West at the time--disrupting international diplomacy, billions of dollars in trade, and prospects for the release of Western hostages in Lebanon.Pipes maps out the long-term implications of the crisis. If the Ayatollah so easily intimidated the West, can others do the same? Can millions of fundamentalist Muslims now living in the United States and Europe possibly be assimilated into a culture so alien to them? Insightful and brilliantly written, this volume provides a full understanding of one of the most significant events in recent years. Koenraad Elst's postscript reviews the enduring impact of the Rushdie affair.

The Unknown Satanic Verses Controversy on Race and Religion

• Author : Üner Daglier
• Publisher : Lexington Books
• File Size : 10,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2020-05-19
• Genre: Political Science
• Pages : 179
• ISBN 10 : 9781793600042

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The worldwide controversy surrounding its first publication in 1988 and concurrent death threat against its author, Salman Rushdie, paradoxically led to a narrow understanding of The Satanic Verses, which focused on whether it is insulting to Islam and whether it should be banned. And despite piecemeal attention to its epistemic intricacies by students of postcolonial literature in the aftermath, The Satanic Verses’ essential opacity has never been sufficiently met. The Unknown Satanic Verses Controversy on Race and Religion now responds to this gap through painstakingly detailed attention to the totality of Rushdie’s text. Indeed it uniquely approaches The Satanic Verses’ attempt to mythicize race and migration, on the one hand, and secularize religion and Islam, on the other, from a perspective informed by the perennial debate on religion and politics, esoteric or coded writing in the history of political thought, especially in times of persecution, and Islamic criticism in contemporary world literature. Üner Daglier’s findings accord with another layer of interpretation that emphasizes Rushdie’s across-the-board critique of racial prejudice, penchant for cultural eclecticism, and bitterly skeptical treatment of the foundations of Submission and proposal for feminist Islamic reform, as the antidote for entrenched misogyny, in a world where philosophy is for the rare and religion for the many. They further convey Rushdie’s constant preoccupation with the nature of miracles and postmodern case for intersubjectivity as a criterion for openness to their validity.

THE FAKE AND EVIL GOD WE WORSHIP THE SATANIC VERSES OF THE BIBLE

• Author : Maximillien De Lafayette
• Publisher : Lulu.com
• File Size : 14,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2023-06-07
• Genre: Uncategoriezed
• Pages : 285
• ISBN 10 : 9781716129575

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White Teeth

• Author : Zadie Smith
• Publisher : Penguin UK
• File Size : 5,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2001-01-25
• Genre: Fiction
• Pages : 560
• ISBN 10 : 9780141939230

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Chosen by the Guardian as one of the Best Books of the 21st Century From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Swing Time, On Beauty and Grand Union 'BELIEVE THE HYPE' The Times The international bestseller and modern classic of multicultural Britain - an unforgettable portrait of London One of the most talked about debut novels of all time, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle, it is a life-affirming, riotous must-read of a book. 'The almost preposterous talent was clear from the first pages' Julian Barnes, Guardian 'Street-smart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same time' New York Times 'Outstanding' Sunday Telegraph

Salman Rushdie

• Author : Søren Frank
• Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
• File Size : 20,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2011
• Genre: Literary Criticism
• Pages : 289
• ISBN 10 : 9788763531092

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Salman Rushdie's novels comprise a linguistic tour de force. They are compositionally equilibristic, politically relevant, a bombardment of the senses, humorous fabulations, and intellectually stimulating. In Salman Rushdie: A Deleuzian Reading, author Soren Frank analyzes five of Rushdie's novels: Grimus, Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, and The Ground Beneath Her Feet. Claiming an intellectual kinship between Rushdie and the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze in regard to worldview, aesthetics, and human identity, the author's analytical starting point is Deleuze's concepts of rhizome, simulacrum, and lines of flight, which are used as guiding principles in his comprehensive examination of Rushdie's compositional and enunciatory strategies and his portrayals of a variety of memorable migrant characters. The volume will be of special relevance to students, scholars, and general readers concerned with the work of Salman Rushdie and Gilles Deleuze.

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nights

• Author : Salman Rushdie
• Publisher : Knopf Canada
• File Size : 17,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2015-09-08
• Genre: Fiction
• Pages : 352
• ISBN 10 : 9780345810243

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From one of the greatest writers of our time: the most spellbinding, entertaining, wildly imaginative novel of his great career, which blends history and myth with tremendous philosophical depth. A masterful, mesmerizing modern tale about worlds dangerously colliding, the monsters that are unleashed when reason recedes, and a beautiful testament to the power of love and humanity in chaotic times. Inspired by 2,000 years of storytelling yet rooted in the concerns of our present moment, this is a spectacular achievement--enchanting, both very funny and terrifying. It is narrated by our descendants 1000 years hence, looking back on "The War of the Worlds" that began with "the time of the strangenesses": a simple gardener begins to levitate; a baby is born with the unnerving ability to detect corruption in people; the ghosts of two long-dead philosophers begin arguing once more; and storms pummel New York so hard that a crack appears in the universe, letting in the destructive djinns of myth (as well as some graphic superheroes). Nothing less than the survival of our world is at stake. Only one, a djinn princess who centuries before had learned to love humankind, resolves to help us: in the face of dynastic intrigue, she raises an army composed of her semi-magical great-great--etc.--grandchildren--a motley crew of endearing characters who come together to save the world in a battle waged for 1,001 nights--or, to be precise, two years, eight months and twenty-eight nights.

Nabokov Rushdie and the Transnational Imagination

• Author : R. Trousdale
• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 19,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2013-07-31
• Genre: Fiction
• Pages : 241
• ISBN 10 : 9780230106888

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Using Vladimir Nabokov and Salman Rushdie's work, this study argues that transnational fiction refuses the simple oppositions of postcolonial theory and suggests the possibility of an inclusive global literature.

Migration and Literature

• Author : S. Frank
• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 8,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2008-09-29
• Genre: Literary Criticism
• Pages : 235
• ISBN 10 : 9780230615472

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Migration and Literature offers a thought-provoking analysis of the thematic and formal role of migration in four contemporary and canonized novelists.

You Can t Read this Book

• Author : Nick Cohen
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 11,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2012
• Genre: Censorship
• Pages : 0
• ISBN 10 : 0007308906

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From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the advert of the Web, everywhere you turn you are told that we live in age of unparalleled freedom. This is dangerously naive. From the revolution in Iran that wasn't to the imposition of super-injunctions from the filthy rich, we still live in a world where you can write a book and end up dead. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of Communism, and the advent of the Web which allowed for even the smallest voice to be heard, everywhere you turned you were told that we were living in an age of unparalleled freedom.

Religious Offence and Human Rights

• Author : Lorenz Langer
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 16,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2014-07-10
• Genre: Law
• Pages : 491
• ISBN 10 : 9781107039575

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Should offence to religions be punishable by law, or does freedom of expression extend even to blasphemy? This book examines this question.

Conversion to Islam

• Author : Ayman S. Ibrahim
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 18,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2021-02-02
• Genre: Religion
• Pages : null
• ISBN 10 : 9780197530726

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Why did non-Muslims convert to Islam during Muhammad's life and under his immediate successors? How did Muslim historians portray these conversions? Why did their portrayals differ significantly? To what extent were their portrayals influenced by their time of writing, religious inclinations, and political affiliations? These are the fundamental questions that drive this study. Relying on numerous works, including primary sources from over a hundred classical Muslim historians, Conversion to Islam is the first scholarly study to detect, trace, and analyze conversion themes in early Muslim historiography, emphasizing how classical Muslims remembered conversion, and how they valued and evaluated aspects of it. Ayman S. Ibrahim examines numerous early Muslim sources and wrestles with critical observations regarding the sources' reliability and unearths the hidden link between historical narratives and historians' religious sympathies and political agendas. This study leads readers through a complex body of literature, provides insights regarding historical context, and creates a vivid picture of conversion to Islam as early Muslim historians sought to depict it.

Joseph Anton

• Author : Salman Rushdie
• Publisher : Random House
• File Size : 11,6 Mb
• Release Date : 2012-09-18
• Genre: Biography & Autobiography
• Pages : 670
• ISBN 10 : 9780679643883

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle • Newsweek/The Daily Beast • The Seattle Times • The Economist • Kansas City Star • BookPage On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being “against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran.” So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. He was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers he loved and combinations of their names; then it came to him: Conrad and Chekhov—Joseph Anton. How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for more than nine years? How does he go on working? How does he fall in and out of love? How does despair shape his thoughts and actions, how and why does he stumble, how does he learn to fight back? In this remarkable memoir Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech. He talks about the sometimes grim, sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen, and of the close bonds he formed with his protectors; of his struggle for support and understanding from governments, intelligence chiefs, publishers, journalists, and fellow writers; and of how he regained his freedom. It is a book of exceptional frankness and honesty, compelling, provocative, moving, and of vital importance. Because what happened to Salman Rushdie was the first act of a drama that is still unfolding somewhere in the world every day. Praise for Joseph Anton “A harrowing, deeply felt and revealing document: an autobiographical mirror of the big, philosophical preoccupations that have animated Mr. R

Salman Rushdie

• Author : Damian Grant
• Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
• File Size : 9,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2012
• Genre: Biography & Autobiography
• Pages : 233
• ISBN 10 : 9780746311622

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Salman Rushdie is one of the most widely discussed and controversial of contemporary writers, particularly since the publication of 'The Satanic Verses'. This new edition covers all of Rushdie's work up to the present, and provides an account of the complex issues raised by the response to 'The Satanic Verses'.

The Satanic Epic

• Author : Neil Forsyth
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• File Size : 18,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2009-01-10
• Genre: Literary Criticism
• Pages : 394
• ISBN 10 : 9781400825233

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The Satan of Paradise Lost has fascinated generations of readers. This book attempts to explain how and why Milton's Satan is so seductive. It reasserts the importance of Satan against those who would minimize the poem's sympathy for the devil and thereby make Milton orthodox. Neil Forsyth argues that William Blake got it right when he called Milton a true poet because he was "of the Devils party" even though he set out "to justify the ways of God to men." In seeking to learn why Satan is so alluring, Forsyth ranges over diverse topics--from the origins of evil and the relevance of witchcraft to the status of the poetic narrator, the epic tradition, the nature of love between the sexes, and seventeenth-century astronomy. He considers each of these as Milton introduces them: as Satanic subjects. Satan emerges as the main challenge to Christian belief. It is Satan who questions and wonders and denounces. He is the great doubter who gives voice to many of the arguments that Christianity has provoked from within and without. And by rooting his Satanic reading of Paradise Lost in Biblical and other sources, Forsyth retrieves not only an attractive and heroic Satan but a Milton whose heretical energies are embodied in a Satanic character with a life of his own.