The Rushdie affair: the novel, the Ayatollah and the West
The Rushdie affair: the novel, the Ayatollah and the West is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
Couldn't load pickup availability
Genuine Products Guarantee
Genuine Products Guarantee
We guarantee 100% genuine products, and if proven otherwise, we will compensate you with 10 times the product's cost.
Delivery and Shipping
Delivery and Shipping
Products are generally ready for dispatch within 1 day and typically reach you in 3 to 5 days.
The Rushdie affair: the novel, the Ayatollah and the West
Book Details
-
Publisher: ADITYA PRAKASHAN Indological Publishers & Booksellers
-
ISBN 13: 9788185990538
-
ISBN 10: 8185990530
-
Edition: 1998
-
Year: 1998
-
Language: English
-
Subject(s): Religion, Voice of India
About the Book
In this insightful book, Daniel Pipes, director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, examines the cataclysmic consequences of the publication of The Satanic Verses. He explains why the novel caused such a backlash and explores what made its content so offensive to some Muslims. For many, even the title of the book was enough to incite outrage, without ever reading the text itself.
Pipes delves into how the publication of The Satanic Verses created a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the West, with significant repercussions on international relations, trade, and the safety of Western hostages in Lebanon. He also reflects on the long-term implications of the crisis, raising the question: if the Ayatollah could so easily intimidate the West, what does that mean for future interactions with millions of fundamentalist Muslims living in the West? Can they be assimilated into a culture so different from their own?
