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	The Satanic Verses (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's fourth novel, first published in 1988 and inspired in part by the life of Muhammad.
		The title refers to the Satanic Verses, an attempted interpolation in the Qur'an described by Ibn Ishaq in his biography of Muhammad (the oldest surviving text).
		The novel consists of a frame narrative, using elements of magical realism, interlaced with a series of sub-plots that are narrated as dream visions experienced by one of the protagonists.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Satanic_Verses_(novel) (1854 words)

	Satanic Verses - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Satanic Verses is an expression coined by the historian Sir William Muir in reference to several verses allegedly interpolated into an early version of the Qur'ān and later expunged.
		The hadīths associated with the latter verse were mere inventions introduced to maintain the argument that naskh means to remove with specific reference to the wording of the verse.
		Satan and the "Satanic verses": The "Satanic verses" episode in the context of the Biblical history of Satan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Satanic_Verses (3277 words)

	GradeSaver: The Satanic Verses Essay: Sympathy for the Devil: The Narrator's Argument in The Satanic Verses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Satan, the narrator of Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, through the story of the novel, and especially through a comparison of himself with his double, Saladin, is trying to prove to his human readers that he deserves redemption.
		Satan does this by orchestrating the action of the novel, and, through the figure of Saladin Chamcha, who resembles Satan both in name and, temporarily, in visage, the narrator argues that even those who commit truly evil acts should be able to redeem themselves.
		This Satan understands the transcendence of climbing Everest and of sex, the overwhelming emotion and charisma of Ayesha, the butterfly girl, the unbreakable bond between father and son.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/satanic/essay1.html (3934 words)

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		Of similar importance, is the fact that The Satanic Verses should have appeared in 1989, the very year in which the last obstacle to the unbridled gushing of capitalist globalization vanished, viz., the collapse of European communism and the consequent rapid demise of the Soviet Union itself.
		But in Rushdie’s art in general and The Satanic Verses in particular, the two sides of this antinomy are mediated in manifold ways in the hope of yielding happier, more authentic and revealing visions of reality even under the aspect of a mercilessly globalizing and thingifying condition.
		At the height of the Rushdie affair a novel appeared in Cairo under the title, The Vacuum in a Man’s Mind, or The Distance in a Man’s Mind, which the clerics attacked for lampooning the prophet, assaulting Islam and claiming that the Koran was not inspired by God.
	www.cssaame.ilstu.edu /issues/v20/azm.doc (13409 words)

	Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
		In a section of the novel that particularly inflamed Muslims Rushdie parodies Mahound's household by inventing the brothel in which Baal the poet (representative of the discourse of literature) parallels Mahound and the twelve prostitutes he marries take on the names of the Prophet's twelve wives.
		If The Satanic Verses is intent on exposing the centrifugal forces concealed within the discourses of politics and religion, then it would be appropriate for a commentator on the novel to concentrate on centripetal forces lurking behind its postmodern carnivalesque facade.
		In his commentaries on the novel he is prepared to adopt, as we have seen, a unitary (and superior) attitude to the dogma of Islamic fundamentalism and Thatcherite racism.
	www.csulb.edu /~bhfinney/SalmanRushdie.html (8230 words)

	Goddess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although like Judaism the Islamic view on god is generally considered gender netural,Salman Rushdie's 1988 novel The Satanic Verses brought to the limelight the issue of remnants of pre-Islamic female deities in Islam.
		The controversial sentence, known as the Satanic Verses in the debate, was well known to Rushdie who wrote a paper on Muhammad for his Cambridge tripos in history.
		He stands in front of the statues of the Three and announces the abrogation of the verses which Shaitan (Satan) whispered in his ear.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Goddess (2403 words)

	Rushdie's Verses
		These inconsistencies, considered along with the actual existence of "the satanic verses" in which Mohammed "temporarily" got it wrong, (this explanation is also part of the historical lore of Islam), undercuts the whole notion of the Koran as literal revelation.
		But as befits a novel in which Rushdie is attempting to portray a world as fully rounded as possible, The Satanic Verses does not just critique the evils of fundamentalism, it also deals seriously with events that appear miraculous and remain mysterious, events around which the religious impulse tends to gravitate.
		Here, the novel is careful to distinguish between the genuine desire of individuals to make sense of the world as expressed through a existential yearning for metaphsyical answers and the collective mind of organized religion concerned as much with power and control as with the spirit.
	www.cyberpat.com /shirlsite/essays/rushdie.html (4036 words)

	Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
		This is where "Satanic Verses" takes a radical departure from the likes of "Midnight's Children" and Günter Grass' The Tin Drum.
		"Satanic Verses" starts off slap-bang with the fantasy and demands your suspension of disbelief before it ever gets to the real world that you are required to believe in.
		In "Satanic Verses", you are required to accept that the entire world, not just one character, is part of the fantasy.
	www.nnbtv.dircon.co.uk /Books/2001/Verses.html (753 words)

	Notes for Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses
		Standing at the centre of the novel is a group of characters most of whom are British Muslims, or not particularly religious persons of Muslim background, struggling with just the sort of great problems that have arisen to surround the book, problems of hybridization and ghettoization, of reconciling the old and the new.
		In 1971 he finished a novel entitled The Book of the Pir (a term which occurs as well in The Satanic Verses), but it was rejected and never published.
		The grasping wife of Muhammad Sufyan in the main plot; the cruel, lascivious wife of Abu Simbel in the "satanic verses" plot.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~brians/anglophone/satanic_verses/intro.html (6690 words)

	Rushdie & Hybridity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Here in The Satanic Verses (the title alone is an inversion of the Bible, or the verses of God), we are given the traditional story of the Nephilim, but told to think in terms of transcultural hybridity.
		In Rushdie's novel, the result of this momentous Fall is the protean, self-invented identity of the migrant.
		In The Satanic Verses, Rushdie presents a cast of characters rocked by rapid metamorphoses and identity changes; for Rushdie, the "homogeneous, non-hybrid, 'pure'" self is "an utterlyfantastic notion" (442).
	academics.hamilton.edu /english/ggane/Hybridity.html (484 words)

	The Satanic Verses (novel) at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Satanic Verses is a novel by Salman Rushdie, inspired thematically in part by legendary and historical incidents that Muhammad experienced.
		In historical writings related to Islam, The Satanic Verses refer to a short passage purported to have existed in the early recitings of the Qur'an, the very existence of which are disputed by Islamic scholars today.
		Committing apostasy is usually recognised as being a crime that carries the death sentence under Islamic law.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /The_Satanic_Verses_(novel).html (317 words)

	Rusdie's Satanic Verses and Khomeini's Reaction
		He believed that the Islamic community was his to protect and, regardless of Rushdie’s claims, The Satanic Verses was an attack against that community.
		Whether or not Khomeini had thoroughly read The Satanic Verses is less important to a study of the Rushdie Affair than the fact that his reaction was presaged by events in that novel.
		In The Satanic Verses, the Imam intended his revolution to counter the corrosive impact of Western ideas on his homeland.
	www.uvm.edu /~hforum/current/article3.htm (5504 words)

	"Those Are The High Flying Claims"
		The sources for the satanic verses, at-Tabari and Ibn Sa'd, are reputable Muslim sources for early Quranic commentary and Islamic history.
		It can easily be gleaned from the story that the incident of reciting the 'Satanic' verses and the consequent prostration of the disbelievers in the Ka'bah happened after the first batch of Muslims had migrated to Abyssinia.
		If one takes the 'Satanic' verses to be true, it would imply that the verses to be found in 53:19f.
	www.islamic-awareness.org /Polemics/sverses.html (3111 words)

	rushdie
		Yet as the novel develops the position of the two becomes confused, and this struggle between good and evil is one of the many themes of the novel.
		Rushdie, Salman, The Satanic Verses, (The Consortium: Delaware, 1992).
		Deedat, Ahmed, The Satanic Verses Unexpurgated, (IPC: Birmingham, 1989).
	victorian.fortunecity.com /coldwater/439/rushdie.htm (10580 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Satanic Verses: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Furore aside, it is a marvellously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers and a rollicking comic fable.
		This novel is not worth the time, effort or controversy which is lavished upon it.
		The writing is amateurish, the premise is dazed, while at first reader may think the novel being rich will soon discover the the content is shallow and not organized.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0963270702 (1190 words)

	Satanic Verses is libel against Islam
		The Satanic Verses is one of the most slanted works in a regular cycle of intentional or unintentional misrepresentations of Islam and Muslims in media sources and textbooks.
		Because of its wild implications and virulent language, the novel constitutes an unprecedented assault on Islam, and, indirectly, on the Abrahamic religions preceding it.
		Thus, given that Rushdie's novel and his publisher's rash impropriety have struck viciously "at the most basic principles" of Islamic belief, the reaction of the vast majority of Muslims till last month can only be described as remarkably mild.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V109/N7/turkoz.07o.html (811 words)

	Satanic verses \| Mashada Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		All along I have always thought that the 'satanic verses' were some form of pornographic insult against muslim.......
		Hence those verses were called "the Satanic verses", and since the Koran cannot have any verses uttered by Satan, they were deleted from the Koran.
		The Satanic verses incident is of course troubling to many Muslims, who now find it blasphemeous for anyone to suggest that Satan could have found his way to the Koran, to Mohammed’s tongue, Mohammed’s pen, etc. In fact most Muslims (at least those informed about it) deny it ever happened.
	www.mashada.com /forums/index/show_topic/37/11614/index.php (3369 words)

	Satanic Verses
		Even the novel I wrote after The Satanic Verses [Haroun and the Sea of Stories], which was a great pleasure for me, and which individual readers responded to warmly, was received on the public level as if it were something to be decoded, an allegory of my predicament.
		It struck me, rereading The Satanic Verses in preparation for this meeting, that the final section, a (relatively) realistic account of a father's death, is perhaps the most significant--and certainly the most moving-- passage in the book, the moment toward which the whole work moves, no matter how fantastical what went before.
		The novel will be called The Moor's Last Sigh, which is a translation of the Spanish name of the place from which in 1492 the last Sultan of Granada, driven out of the city by the Catholic armies of Ferdinand and Isabella, looked back for a final time at the Alhambra palace.
	www.albany.edu /faculty/lr618/rushdie.html (3637 words)

	America Responds to Terrorism -- Blasphemy Salman Rushdie
		The Satanic Verses is a fantasy about two actors from India traveling on an airplane.
		In 1991, the Japanese translator of The Satanic Verses was stabbed to death.
		The Satanic Verses was not suppressed, the author of The Satanic Verses went on writing.
	www.crf-usa.org /terror/rushdie.htm (1882 words)

	Satanic Verses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Satanic Verses was banned in India in 1988 as a result of protest from some members of the Indian Muslim community,
		Whitbread Prize and was named Germany's Author of the Year for Satanic Verses.
		notes on Satanic Verses which are available on the web.
	www.subir.com /rushdie/sv.html (111 words)

	The Satanic Verses: Study Questions
		If we write in such a way as to pre-judge such belief as in some way deluded or false, then are we not guilty of elitism, of imposing our world-view on the masses?" (537).
		Is this view a description of Rushdie's openness in the novel or of the elitism that some of his opponents have claimed?
		Some critics have commented that a novel that begins in wild postmodernism ends in nineteenth-century sentimentality.
	www.faculty.umb.edu /charles_knight/SVQST9.html (705 words)

	Salman Rushdie
		His second novel, Midnight's Children, is a comedic telling of Indian history through the eyes of a pickle-factory worker who knows people's souls through the extraordinary powers of his large nose.
		It was Rushdie's fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, that extended his fame world-wide.
		For its freewheeling observations of Islam, The Satanic Verses was denounced as "exactly what it is called -- verses inspired by Satan himself".
	www.nndb.com /people/317/000022251 (387 words)

	The Satanic Verses (0312270828) RUSHDIE - Picador
		Told via the tales of 2 different characters, The Satanic Verses is an interesting and brilliant look into that aforementioned pair of human traits: good and evil.
		In this brilliantly focused and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua, Salman Rushdie brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of a revolution.
		Salman Rushdie is the author of six novels: Grimus, Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, and one work of short stories titled East, West.
	www.picadorusa.com /product/product.aspx?isbn=0312270828 (1326 words)

	Hausarbeiten.de: Translation as a central topic in Salman Rushdie s novel the Satanic Verses - Hauptseminararbeit. ...
		At the example of various immigrants which are subject to the novel I try to point out the problems these people have when coming to a foreign country.
		In the first chapter the two protagonists of the Satanic Verses, Saladin Chamcha and Gibreel Farishta are introduced, illustrating how much both characters are subject to the aspect of translation.
		The central and reoccurring phrase throughout the whole novel “To be born again first you have to die” (first mentioned on page 3) is very interesting for our consideration of translation.
	www.hausarbeiten.de /faecher/vorschau/1100.html (828 words)

	eBay - Book: The Satanic Verses (ISBN: 0312270828) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sardonic and bleak at the same time, THE SATANIC VERSES is a striking parable of faith and doubt in the postmodern world.
		The Satanic Verses is a wonderfully erudite study of the evil and good entwined within the hearts of women and men, an epic journey of tears and laughter, served up by a writer at the height of his powers.
		"The Satanic Verses" is a novel that should be read for its eclectic style, and the controversial ideas presented.
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	BBC News \| South Asia \| Rushdie 'hurt' by India ban
		Reflecting on the price he has paid for writing The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie says in the interview that the biggest loss has been the damage to his relationship with India.
		He accuses the Indian government of banning the book without having read it, and of preventing him from travelling to India, even though he was born in the country and has property here.
		Mr Rushdie is quoted as saying that he feels his relationship with India has changed forever, and his next novel is about saying goodbye to the country.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/190588.stm (536 words)

	Catholic Community Forum Discussion Groups - View Single Post - The Satanic Verses and The Da Vinci Code
		Banning any novel that has been written without purposefully intending to offend a faith community is risible.
		It would be the equivalent of writing a novel about finding the bones of Jesus since the title refers to a contentious event which potentially undermines the veracity of the Qu'ran which Muslims believe are the very spoken and recorded words of God through his prophet Mohammed.
		Having said this, it is still a novel and it would be nice to think that tolerance extended across faith/culture boundaries but perhaps Catholics (given the history of the Church) should rather preoccupy their energies with developing and maintaining their own open-mindedness.
	www.catholic-forum.com /forums/showpost.php?p=10054&postcount=8 (203 words)

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