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

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"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
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"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? 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.

Daniel Pipes, Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, explains why the publication of The Satanic Verses became a cataclysmic event, with far-reaching consequences. Pipes details what the fundamentalists perceived, and what the novel actually said, that proved so offensive to some Muslims.

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
One of several forthcoming books on the subject, this sober study by a senior lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania describes and analyzes the international repercussions to the publication of The Satanic Verses. Pipes demonstrates convincingly that, although Salman Rushdie was preoccupied with the twin issues of religious sensitivities and censorship, he wanted to shake the world without accepting responsibility for what he wrought. Pipes also explains why the book is regarded as blasphemous and why many Muslims are convinced that it is part of a Western conspiracy against Islam. He questions the legality of Khomeni's death edict against Rushdie, and surveys Muslim reactions to the edict and Western responses to Muslim intimidation and state-sponsored terrorism. He shows that, ironically, the strongest opinions on all sides came from those who had not even seen, much less read, the novel. (May)
Library Journal
There has been a sudden deluge of books about Salman Rushdie and the attempt to silence him. This book, written by an expert on Middle East politics, is one of the better ones. Besides recounting the events that took place between the publication of The Satanic Verses and the Ayatollah's edict, covered elsewhere by the republication of source documents and news accounts (see, for instance, The Rushdie File, LJ 3/1/90), this work examines the text of Rushdie's novel to see why the book was considered blasphemous by the Ayatollah. Pipes suggest that with his knowledge of Islam Rushdie must have known that his book would be considered blasphemous. The text and legality of the edict are also considered. Because of Pipes's expertise, this section and the subsequent evaluation of the re percussions of the edict are valuable, making the book of primary importance in its coverage of this controversy.-- Gor don Stein, Univ. of Rhode Island Lib., Kingston
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781559720250
  • Publisher: Carol Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 4/1/1990
  • Pages: 269
  • Product dimensions: 5.80 (w) x 8.55 (h) x 1.13 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 13
Introduction 15
1 Half a Year of Upheaval 19
2 Rushdie: A Man of the Left 41
3 How is the Book Blasphemous? 53
4 Blame Rushdie for the Furor? 70
5 Khomeini's Edict 87
6 Why Fundamentalist Muslims Picked on Rushdie 106
7 A Great Conspiracy Against Islam 123
8 Muslim Responses to Khomeini 138
9 Western Responses to Khomeini 155
10 Iran's Shadow in the West 179
11 Censorship and Its Costs 195
12 Muslims Living in the West 214
13 Concluding Thoughts 232
Appendix 253
Glossary 255
Postscript 257
Index 291
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