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

ISBN-13: 9780765809964 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 304 str.

Daniel Pipes; Koenraad Elst

Opis

The publication in 1988 of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses triggereda furor that pitted much of the Islamic world against the West over issues ofblasphemy and freedom of expression. The controversy soon took on theaspect of a confrontation of civilizations, provoking powerful emotions on aglobal level. It involved censorship, protests, riots, a break in diplomaticrelations, culminating in the notorious Iranian edict calling for the death ofthe novelist. In The Rushdie Affair, Daniel Pipes explains why the publicationofThe Satanic Verses became a cataclysmic event with far-reaching politicaland social consequences.

Spis treści

1: Half a Year of Upheaval; I: The Author, The Novel, and The Edict; 2: Rushdie: A Man of The Left; 3: How Is the Book Blasphemous?; 4: Blame Rushdie for the Furor?; 5: Khomeini's Edict; 6: Why Fundamentalist Muslims Picked on Rushdie; II: Protests and Repercussions; 7: A Great Conspiracy Against Islam; 8: Muslim Responses to Khomeini; 9: Western Responses to Khomeini; 10: IRAN'S Shadow in the West; 11: Censorship and Its Costs; 12: Muslims Living in the West; 13: Concluding Thoughts

O autorze

Daniel Pipes