WAR VERSES: A JIHADIST FAIRYTALE is literary accessible fiction with historical, multicultural, and magical realism elements in the tradition of THE SATANIC VERSES. Framed within a year of jihadist terrorism, WAR VERSES: A JIHADIST FAIRYTALE tells how a family in Arkham, Massachusetts confronts the supernatural ambition behind holy war. The husband and father of this family is an Arabic professor with a jihadist past who travels to India to protect a medieval manuscript written by the blind Nestorian priest who declared Muhammad a prophet. The manuscript promises the secret to ending...

WAR VERSES: A JIHADIST FAIRYTALE is literary accessible fiction with historical, multicultural, and magical realism elements in the tradition of THE SATANIC VERSES. Framed within a year of jihadist terrorism, WAR VERSES: A JIHADIST FAIRYTALE tells how a family in Arkham, Massachusetts confronts the supernatural ambition behind holy war. The husband and father of this family is an Arabic professor with a jihadist past who travels to India to protect a medieval manuscript written by the blind Nestorian priest who declared Muhammad a prophet. The manuscript promises the secret to ending...