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The Rushdie Affair - The Novel, the Ayatollah, and the West (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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The Rushdie Affair - The Novel, the Ayatollah, and the West (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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The publication in 1988 of Salman Rushdie's novel "The Satanic
Verses" triggered a furor that pitted much of the Islamic world
against the West over issues of blasphemy and freedom of
expression. The controversy soon took on the aspect of a
confrontation of civilizations, provoking powerful emotions on a
global level. It involved censorship, protests, riots, a break in
diplomatic relations, culminating in the notorious Iranian edict
calling for the death of the novelist. 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? Insightful and brilliantly written, 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.
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