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The title refers to the Satanic Verses, a group of Quranic verses about three pagan Meccan goddesses: Allāt, Al-Uzza, and Manāt. The part of the story that deals with the satanic verses was based on accounts from the historians al-Waqidi and al-Tabari.
- Salman Rushdie
- 1988
The Satanic Verses (Brasil: Versos Satânicos / Portugal: Os Versículos Satânicos) é o quarto romance do escritor britânico de origem indiana Salman Rushdie. Publicado pela primeira vez em setembro de 1988, o livro foi inspirado na vida do profeta islâmico Maomé.
The Satanic Verses are words of "satanic suggestion" which the Islamic prophet Muhammad is alleged to have mistaken for divine revelation. The first use of the expression in English is attributed to Sir William Muir in 1858.
26 de set. de 1988 · The Satanic Verses (1988), novel of Indian-born British writer Salman Rushdie led Ruholla Khomeini, the ayatollah of Iran, to demand his execution and then forced him into hiding; his other works include Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker prize, and The Moor's Last Sigh (1995).
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The Satanic Verses “The tone of the novel veers daringly from the slapstick to the melodramatic. … [Rushdie’s] conjuring tricks are magical.… personal and touching.” —The New York Times “A glittering novelist—one with startling imagination and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling.” —The New Yorker
The Satanic Verses is a magic realist epic novel by Indian-born writer Salman Rushdie that upon its publication in 1988 became one of the most controversial books of the late 20th century. Its fanciful and satiric use of Islam struck some Muslims as blasphemous, and Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against it in 1989.
25 de set. de 2018 · The book, “Satanic Verses,” goes to the heart of Muslim religious beliefs when Rushdie, in dream sequences, challenges and sometimes seems to mock some of its most sensitive tenets.
