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The Rushdie affair : the novel, the Ayatollah, and the West

Title

The Rushdie affair : the novel, the Ayatollah, and the West / by Daniel Pipes.

Author

Pipes, Daniel, 1949-

Publication

New York, NY : Carol Pub. Group, [1990]
©1990

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Description

269 pages; 22 cm

Summary

Explains why the publication of the satanic verses became a catachysmic event, with far-reaching consequences.

Subject

Genre/Form

Literature
History
Literature.
Littérature.

Note

"Birch Lane Press book."

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Half a year of upheaval -- Part I: The author, the novel, and the edict -- Rushdie: a man of the left -- How is the book blasphemous? -- Blame Rushdie for the furor? -- Khomeini's edict -- Why fundamentalist Muslims picked on Rushdie -- Part II: Protests and repercussions -- A great conspiracy against Islam -- Muslim responses to Khomeini -- Western responses to Khomeini -- Iran's shadow in the West -- Censorship and its costs -- Muslims living in the West -- Concluding thoughts.

ISBN

1559720255
9781559720250
1559120255
9781559120258
1559120258

LCCN

89043091

OCLC

ocm20930440
20930440
SCSB-14634244

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library