The Satanic Verses

The Satanic Verses

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  • Author:Salman Rushdie
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One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book。 Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight。 Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to earth, transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil。 This is just the initial act in a magnificent odyssey that seamlessly merges the actual with the imagined。 A book whose importance is eclipsed only by its quality, The Satanic Verses is a key work of our times。

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Jo Leadbetter

I listened to this。 I will listen again。 It was beautifully read and I lounged about on it like a sofa。 I'm sure with more listens I will find new depths。 I listened to this。 I will listen again。 It was beautifully read and I lounged about on it like a sofa。 I'm sure with more listens I will find new depths。 。。。more

Mukul

For salman Rushdie

Bachir ELHALLAK

هذه النصوص ليست سوى مجموعة من الهذيانات والهلوسات المرضية وهي لا تستحق القراءة。

Mustafa M。 Ahmed

Now I understand

TARA

Alors que l'état de santé de Salman Rushdie, né à Bombay, défraie la chronique, la vente de son ouvrage « Les versets sataniques » explose。 Il a quitté son pays à l'âge de quatorze ans pour vivre au Royaume Uni。Ayant retrouvé des notes prises pendant la lecture de cet ouvrage (merci à mon rangement), c'est donc l'occasion pour moi d'en parler un peu。« La lutte éternelle du Bien et du Mal。 » Un roman qui lui a valu une sentence de mort。« Le respect de la liberté d'expression ne peut exiger la tol Alors que l'état de santé de Salman Rushdie, né à Bombay, défraie la chronique, la vente de son ouvrage « Les versets sataniques » explose。 Il a quitté son pays à l'âge de quatorze ans pour vivre au Royaume Uni。Ayant retrouvé des notes prises pendant la lecture de cet ouvrage (merci à mon rangement), c'est donc l'occasion pour moi d'en parler un peu。« La lutte éternelle du Bien et du Mal。 » Un roman qui lui a valu une sentence de mort。« Le respect de la liberté d'expression ne peut exiger la tolérance de l'intolérable。 Ce sont les idées, quand elles sont néfastes, qu'il faut combattre »。Au travers de ce roman provocateur et qualifié de « blasphématoire », Salman Rushdie a mis à jour « l'indicible » de la religion musulmane - tournant en dérisoire la crédibilité du Prophète Mahomet/Muhammad - abolissant les idées dichotomiques de la religion (Bien et Mal se mélangent, Anges et Démons échangent leurs rôles…) - attaquant le fondamentalisme islamique, l'auteur a écrit là un concentré de remise en question de la religion musulmane et de ses fondements。Tous deux passagers du Bostan à destination de Londres, Gibreel Farishta et Saladin Chamcha sont les victimes d'un attentat terroriste。 Leur avion explose et les voilà tombant du ciel, chantant et renaissant à leur nouveau rôle : archanges du bien et du mal。 Miraculeusement rescapés, ils atterrissent sur une plage anglaise devant la demeure d'une vieille dame qui accepte de les héberger。Alors que Saladin, « L'homme aux Mille Voix », roi du doublage et immigrant anglicisé, se transforme lentement mais inexorablement en une créature mi-homme mi-bouc et est emmené par la police, Gibreel, célèbre acteur indien, comprend très vite son nouveau rôle d' « Archange de la Récitation »。 Il rêve… Comme dans un feuilleton, ses songes se succèdent et reprennent là où ils s'étaient arrêtés。 Dans ces rêves, nous découvrons l'histoire du prophète Mahound, homme d'affaire de Jahilia, » La cité des sables »。 S'insurgeant contre ses semblables, il clame l'existence d'un seul et unique Dieu et annonce à tous les versets qui lui sont récités par l'ange Gibreel。 Accumulant les fidèles, il prône la véracité des versets qui dictent la conduite des croyants。Un autre rêve : Ayesha, jeune femme envoûtante, exhorte, suivant les consignes de l'archange Gibreel, tout un village à réaliser un pèlerinage vers la Mecque, à pied。 Elle leur promet que la mer d'Arabie s'ouvrira devant eux et que les malades seront guéris。Chacun tentant un retour à son ancienne vie, Gibreel et Saladin sont les acteurs, les spectateurs d'aventures qui remettront en question les fondements de leur personnalité et de leur vision des choses。Il serait bien trop long d'entrer davantage dans les détails de ce roman qui accumule les événements choquants, absurdes et les personnages insolites au point de dérouter le lecteur。Ce qu'il faut retenir de ce roman, ce sont bien les idées qu'il prône aux travers de cette comédie burlesque。Comme a dit l'auteur lui-même « Les romans ne suppriment pas les règles mais posent des questions »。 Et la question qui est le centre de ce livre est « de quel genre d'idée es-tu ? »。 Autrement dit, sur quoi se base ta personnalité, tes croyances。 Pourquoi fut-il qualifié de blasphématoire ? Les histoires de Mahound et d'Ayesha sont présentées sous forme d'allégories qui s'inspirent clairement d'événements religieux。 Mais que penser quand les fables nous disent que Mahound consultait toujours son ange Gibreel, la voix de la vérité, en cas de besoin ? Mahound a plusieurs femmes, une dans chaque village qu'il veut convertir。 Est-ce mal ? Il va voir l'archange qui le conforte dans ses actes。 Il n'aime pas qu'elles montrent trop de personnalité。 Qu'à cela ne tienne, Gibreel édicte tout un ensemble de règles sur ce qu'elles doivent ou ne doivent pas faire。Quant au pèlerinage vers la Mecque, il est le symbole d'intolérance et d'aveuglement。 Jusqu'où peuvent mener les convictions religieuses ? Jusqu'au crime。 Il faut aller jusqu'au bout, sinon, Dieu vous punira, détruira vos récoltes。 Il y a des morts ? Peu importe, laissons-les au bord de la route。Ce livre est une Accusation avec un grand « A »。La religion n'est qu'un outil de justification。 « Les gens recherchaient des satisfactions éthiques dans le plus ancien des grands récits, c'est-à-dire, la foi religieuse »。 Autrement dit, l'homme prête facilement des responsabilités à Dieu et à L Histoire pour justifier ses actes。On dénonce l'élitisme, la répression des femmes, l'intolérance et la violence。 « La foi religieuse, qui exprime les plus hautes aspirations de l'espèce humaine, est aujourd'hui, dans notre pays, la servante des instincts les plus bas et Dieu est la créature du Mal »。Pour ce livre qui met en évidence les limites confuses entre le Bien et le Mal, Salman Rushdie fut menacé de mort。 La « Fatwa », décret religieux de mise à mort, fut lancée à son encontre et une énorme prime promise à celui qui l'assassinerait。« Il doit être tué », affirma l'Ayatollah Khomeini。 On l'accusa d'être responsable de la mort de manifestants pakistanais, alors que le livre n'était même pas paru dans ce pays。Sous protection des services secrets britanniques durant plus de dix ans, la fatwa avait enfin été levée。 Mais voilà qu'à présent, il a été agressé : par un fou ? L'enquête est en cours。 Quant à Salman Rushdie, il se remet tout doucement。Un livre sur lequel il est préférable de se faire sa propre opinion et, bien que le style de Salma Rushdie soit particulièrement déroutant, il est réellement intéressant de s'arrêter sur toutes les subtilités de ce roman qui eut le mérite de dire tout haut ce que la plupart pensent tout bas…« L'un des livres dont on a le plus parlé ces dix dernières années (sur lequel) il semble important de se faire sa propre opinion。 » (Le Monde »)。 。。。more

Edwin Setiadi

Why The Satanic Verses is so controversial?On 12 August 2022 Salman Rushdie was attacked on stage, stabbed multiple times that left him wounded including on the right side of his neck where he lost a lot of blood。 The attack is still related to this 1988 novel, The Satanic Verses, which became controversial because of the blasphemous nature towards Islam。 But what exactly is the blasphemy? According to a theory that the likes of Rushdie believe, The Satanic Verses is a reference to a few lines t Why The Satanic Verses is so controversial?On 12 August 2022 Salman Rushdie was attacked on stage, stabbed multiple times that left him wounded including on the right side of his neck where he lost a lot of blood。 The attack is still related to this 1988 novel, The Satanic Verses, which became controversial because of the blasphemous nature towards Islam。 But what exactly is the blasphemy? According to a theory that the likes of Rushdie believe, The Satanic Verses is a reference to a few lines that were said to be temporarily included in the Qur’an by the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) that mentions about Al-Lat, Al-‘Uzzá, and Manāt, which, according to the pagan religion that existed in Mecca before the spread of Islam, are the daughters of Allah。The theory suggest that the lines acknowledge the existence, worship, and worthiness of these three goddesses, and it went like this: “Have ye thought upon Al-Lat and Al-‘Uzzá。 And Manāt, the third, the other?”Eventually, however, according to the theory the Prophet (PBUH) informed the Islamic community that these specific verses did not come from Allah through the angel Gabriel, but deceptively whispered by Satan (hence, the satanic verses)。 And thus the verses were said to be omitted from the Qur’an, never made it into the hadith compilation, and erased from history (due to its false idolatry nature)。So, what did Salman Rushdie wrote in the novel that becomes so controversial? The controversy is centred at the disrespectful portrayal of a character “inspired by” the Prophet (PBUH)。 Starting with the choice of name, Mahound, that was used in the past by medieval Christian writers in a derogatory tone to depict the Prophet (PBUH) as a demon who inspired a false religion。 In addition, the exact age, vocation, family situation, even the physical description of Mahound is also identical with the Prophet’s (PBUH)。Furthermore, in the novel Mahound is portrayed as a deceitful person with self interest (unlike the real Prophet), who, for example, casts doubt on the divine nature of the Qur’an, and misattributes certain actual passages in the Qur’an that puts men “in charge” of women and gives them the “right” to strike wives, thus indirectly attempted to portray the Prophet as sexist (Sure, plenty of hardliners are doing it, but not the Prophet)。The novel itself is nothing like I’ve seen before。 It paints a multi-layered picture on life, magic, and spirituality, with multiple narrations occurring through dream sequences that centers around 2 main characters that fall from a plane crash but miraculously survived。 But then one character (Gibreel Farishta) turned into an angel, while the other (Saladin Chamcha) turned into a devil。What comes afterwards are bizarre sub-plots in a form of those dream sequences。 While some sub-plots tell the love triangles and ordinary human interactions between the characters, others are notable for their stance that made the book so controversial。For example, one sub-plot seems to attempt to re-write the history of early days of Islam。 It briefly mentions about the story of Siti Hagar and the zamzam water, but most significantly it describes the life of the character Mahound in 7th century Jahilia (Rushdie’s name for Mecca) that includes the debatable satanic verses incident, where in the attempt to escape persecution Mahound publicly acknowledges the existence of Allah’s daughters, but later after safety he declared that the revelation came from Satan and not God through the angel Gabriel (while according to Rushdie the revelation did come from Gabriel, thus portraying Mahound as a deceptive character and questioning the tenet of his “Submission” community - aka Islam - as a monotheistic religion)。 Another sub-plot attempts to re-write the history of the incident where the Prophet (PBUH) and his followers came back to take control of Mecca without a bloodshed, but in Rushdie’s version the character Mahound became a vengeful dictator that ruled Jahilia with heavy self-interest。Another notable sub-plot depicts a character that was sitting in exile and received a revelation from an angel (aka Farishta himself) to fight the goddess Al-Lat (one of Allah’s daughters) in the battle to control Desh (an analogy for Iran)。 The character resemblance the real-life Ayatollah Khomeini, which is why the Ayatollah then issued a fatwa to kill Rushdie (not necessarily because of Rushdie’s depiction of Islam, but could be because of the depiction of him), which FYI goes against the real teachings of Islam。So, is the book worth the risk of controversies, anger, and even decades worth of death threats for Rushdie, not to mention several failed marriages that may or may not caused by the threats?The theme of the book appears to be based around Rushdie’s own background as an Indian-born British citizen to a Muslim Kashmiri family, which could be a clue on the tone of victim of racism (of the Indian characters, by the British) and his biased view towards Islam。 Moreover, although there’s no record of Rushdie’s falling out with his liberal Islam upbringing, he self-proclaimed himself as a “hardliner atheist” that would put him in the same category as Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, rather than Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Geert Wilders。 In other words, more pretentious intellectual snob looking down on “organised religion” than someone who had a traumatic personal experience which turned them into a “free speech” warrior。But at the end of the day, freedom of speech is one thing but the book doesn’t look to be an attempt for a healthy scholarly religious debate, but instead it is a thinly veiled attack on an entire religion’s history that emboldens its false negative stereotypes, which reflects the author’s atheist hardliner way of thinking。 Because Salman Rushdie studied history at the University of Cambridge, so any historical inaccuracies are not the result of ignorance or lack of research。 He knows exactly what he’s writing about。And speaking of historical inaccuracies and lack of research, the so-called “Satanic Verses” are actually still exist in the Qur’an, in Surah 53:19-20, and if you read on to verse 21-23 you’ll see clearly that they are a part of a longer sentence that addresses the false idolatry nature。 Again, Rushdie knows exactly what he’s writing about。Now, of course any attacks on him are not justifiable, but I understand the anger。 Just like I don’t agree with what Rushdie is trying to portray, but from looking at his background I also understand why he did it。 We don’t need to like it (or choose a side, for that matter) in order to understand it。 Funny what one book can do to someone’s life。But objectively and purely from a reader’s point of view, like I said the big picture of the story is a bit out of the box and nothing like I’ve encountered before, with a plot line that could even become an interesting movie (although it can do without the insults)。 But as a book, the writing style is generally painful to follow, and in need of a further editing (and not even for the content, but for the structure and poor punctuations)。 Which makes me wonder whether all the awards that it gets are the result of a genuine literacy excellence or due to its “freedom of speech” controversies。All in all, I believe one sentence from the book can summarise his whole motive for writing it。 “What is the opposite of faith?” Rushdie asks in part II of the novel。 “Not disbelief。 Too final, certain, closed。 Itself a kind of belief。” No, the opposite of faith is “doubt。” And he’s attempting to install this doubt through insulting the fundamental premise of a religion, the integrity of its Prophet, and oh I almost forget, he also portrays the Prophet’s (PBUH) wives (Peace Be Upon Them) in the novel as whores in the most popular brothel in Jahilia, “The Curtain, Hijab。” That’s why it’s so controversial。 。。。more

Emily

in light of the recent attack on Rushdie I'm moving this book up my TBR Bari Weiss podcast episodeChristopher Hitchens on Salman Rushdie Shocking that dozens of people have been MURDERED over this book。 in light of the recent attack on Rushdie I'm moving this book up my TBR Bari Weiss podcast episodeChristopher Hitchens on Salman Rushdie Shocking that dozens of people have been MURDERED over this book。 。。。more

Susan

Especially since the very recent attack on the author, I wanted to try again and read this。 Or listen to it actually。I still/again cannot get into it。The reading is very good, but it just doesn't work for me。 Especially since the very recent attack on the author, I wanted to try again and read this。 Or listen to it actually。I still/again cannot get into it。The reading is very good, but it just doesn't work for me。 。。。more

TourneSol

Literally one of the worst books I've ever read。 Literally one of the worst books I've ever read。 。。。more

James Connolly

Motivated to read owing to the horrific attack on Rushdie。 Rushdie is a brilliant author and Midnight's Children is one of the finest works of literature。 There are moments of genius in this novel but the prose are so dense at times it overwhelms any thematic depth。 Motivated to read owing to the horrific attack on Rushdie。 Rushdie is a brilliant author and Midnight's Children is one of the finest works of literature。 There are moments of genius in this novel but the prose are so dense at times it overwhelms any thematic depth。 。。。more

Jane Wilson-Howarth

I salute the bravery and courage of Salman Rushdie and make a plea for freedom of speech - which means anyone has a right to express their opinion, even if it is one that is disagreeable to some

Bogaert Angelique

too complicated

Ramiyan A

Good

Mark Lawrence

I never had any interest in reading this book。But I have now bought a copy。 It's back at the top of the best seller lists。 Murderous thugs who try to supress books, get exactly the opposite of what they want。 I suggest you give it a read too。 Join my PatreonJoin my 3-emails-a-year newsletter #prizes。 I never had any interest in reading this book。But I have now bought a copy。 It's back at the top of the best seller lists。 Murderous thugs who try to supress books, get exactly the opposite of what they want。 I suggest you give it a read too。 Join my PatreonJoin my 3-emails-a-year newsletter #prizes。 。。。more

Hannah H

An absurd over reaction to a book about migration and identity。 The novel has nothing to do with religion other than being employed as a metaphor for dualism (devil vs angel)

Farah

آيات رشدي الشيطانية。。 بين الكراهية والأدبكتبت/فرح النجار حسب الرواية، تدور الأحداث حول 'جبريل فاريشتا' الممثل الهندي الشهير و'صلاح الدين شمشا' الهادب من وطنه الهند إلى لندن。。 حيث يشير رشدي لسقوطهما من طائرة مخطوفة إثر إنفجارها على أنه رمز لسقوط جبريل الملاك وإبليس الشيطان إلى الأرض。وتتحدث الرواية فيما بعد عن تحول حقيقي لكلا الشخصيتين إلى ملاك وشيطان بشكل فعلي، كما صورت الأحداث الكثير من التحولات الفظيعة لبشر آخرين، وتطرق الكاتب كثيرًا لفكرة التناسخ، مما يجعل منها رواية من نوع الفنتازيا إذا صح ت آيات رشدي الشيطانية。。 بين الكراهية والأدبكتبت/فرح النجار حسب الرواية، تدور الأحداث حول 'جبريل فاريشتا' الممثل الهندي الشهير و'صلاح الدين شمشا' الهادب من وطنه الهند إلى لندن。。 حيث يشير رشدي لسقوطهما من طائرة مخطوفة إثر إنفجارها على أنه رمز لسقوط جبريل الملاك وإبليس الشيطان إلى الأرض。وتتحدث الرواية فيما بعد عن تحول حقيقي لكلا الشخصيتين إلى ملاك وشيطان بشكل فعلي، كما صورت الأحداث الكثير من التحولات الفظيعة لبشر آخرين، وتطرق الكاتب كثيرًا لفكرة التناسخ، مما يجعل منها رواية من نوع الفنتازيا إذا صح تصنيفها على أنها رواية。 العمل أدبيًا يفتقر إلى عناصر الرواية والبناء الأدبي بمُجمل تفاصيله:~ الفكرة: التي استطرد رشدي في ما يقارب ال 300 صفحة محاولًا طرحها، غير موجودة。 وستنهي الصفحات متسائلًا ما غايته "أدبيًا" من كتابة هذه الأسطر؟ ~ الحبكة: ضعيفة نوعًا ما تجده يبدأ وينهي كل فصل وكأنه لا علاقة له بما سبقه أو ما يليه، سوى أن الرابط الوحيد هو سقوط الطائرة。 والخاتمة لا توحي بكونها ختام للـ 9 فصول التي سبقتها。~ اللغة: فصحى بما أن العمل مترجم، وهي ترجمة أشبه بالحرفية، اقتص المترجم بضعة أسطر من كل فقرة من باب تقليل التكرار ومنع التطويل ولكن العمل كان عبارة عن سرد مطول وممل بشكل مكثف بعد تلك الاقتطاعات على كل حال。 ~ الشخصيات: كثيرة، منها ما تم وصفه ومنها ما تم اقحامه عنوة。 جميعها تفتقر للبناء السليم حتى أبطال الرواية أنفسهم، فهو تائه بينهما أغلب الوقت من حيث المسميات。 ~ العنوان والغلاف: أعتقد (وهو اعتقاد شخصي) أن رشدي سمع عبارة "آيات شيطانية" فقرر أن يكتب روايته عنها ولكنه اعتمد على كراهيته لا على معلومات موثقة ولا على عناصر أدبية لصياغة عمله。 حيث أنه حتى القصة (الضعيفة الموضوعة) التي اقتبس عنها عنوانه راح يسردها بطريقة خاطئة وبأسلوبه المتحيز، أما غلاف الرواية جاء عاديًا، قاتم الألوان كالمحتوى تمامًا。 ~ النقد: * أخطاء لغوية وإملائية تجعلك تبحث عن المترجم والمدقق بين ثنايا العمل。* مغالطات لا تُعد ولا تُحصى في المعلومات التاريخية المذكورة وتفاوت كبير في الأحداث وخلط في أسماء الشخصيات، بطريقة تكاد تُظهر الكاتب وكأنه يحاول البدأ بكتابة رواية لأول مرة على الرغم من نشره لعدة أعمال سابقة。 * الكثير من التجاوزات والإباحية التي لا مبرر لها في عدة مواضع سواء فيما يخص أشخاص الرواية أو ما يتعلق بالمعلومات التاريخية المغلوطة المذكورة。هنالك دائمًا حد مسموح به من الأخطاء في العمل الروائي، إذا ما كانت هذه الأخطاء تخدم بيئة العمل، ولكننا هنا أمام كُتلة من الكذب التاريخي المحض الذي ينافي أي مبدأ سواء أدبي أو إنساني。ومن الممكن اعتبار هذا العمل كدليل حقيقي ملموس على جهل الكاتب بالتاريخ عمومًا والدين الإسلامي -الذي يتشدق بمعرفته طوال الوقت- على حد سواء، كما أنه يثبت بما لا يدع مجالًا للشك أنه مدفوع للتشويه بالكراهية اللامبررة。 حيث أن هناك فرق شاسع بين محاولة مناقشة أي دين والبحث في أصوله، أو استخدام بعض تفاصيله لدعم العمل الروائي وبين تحريفه وتشويه مضمونه وقلب الحقائق。فما كتبه سلمان رشدي في روايته "آيات شيطانية" هو محض تحريف وتشويه مع سبق الإصرار。 حيث أنه لا يمكن لقارئ هذه الصفحات ألا يشعر بمدى ركاكة الأسلوب، وكم الكراهية الشديدة التي يكنها رشدي للإسلام ولشخص النبي عليه أفصل الصلاة والسلام حتى يصوره بهذه الطريقة。 حيث كان هناك ذلك السرد التاريخ الأحلام جبريل التي شاء لها رشدي أن تكون عن ماهاوند والذي هو النبي محمد عليه أفصل الصلاة والسلام。。 ولست أدري من أین جاء رشدي بهذا الاسم。 أؤمن بحرية التعبير، ويمكن اعتباري من المؤيدين لمقولة "يحق للروائي في أعماله ما لا يحق لسواه。" ولكن ما قرأته ليس عملًا روائيًا على الإطلاق، وأجزم بشكل قاطع أنه لا يمت لحرية التعبير بِصِلة。 قرأت العمل بعد خبر محاولة اغتيال رشدي، الأغلبية أشادوا بأعماله السابقة خاصة روايته "Midnight Children" وكنت قد قررت قرأتها في وقت ما ولكن لم أبدأ بعد。 وشاء القدر أن اقرأ هذا العمل أولًا ليكون كافيًا كي أضع رشدي مع أعماله على قائمة الأشخاص الذين لن أُكرر تجربة قراءة أعمالهم أبدًا 。。 دمتم بخير ♡ 。。。more

Holli

Is it safe to say I want to read it? Let's read it for banned books week。 Order it while we still have the freedom to do so。Many translators were murdered because of this book's release。 I believe a threat has now been issued to J。K。 Rowling。 A religion of peace has stabbed a 75 year old author, on our American shores, who had been living under a death warrant for 30 years。 Recently women were shot at and beaten in the street for daring to ask for a job and education。 Is it safe to say I want to read it? Let's read it for banned books week。 Order it while we still have the freedom to do so。Many translators were murdered because of this book's release。 I believe a threat has now been issued to J。K。 Rowling。 A religion of peace has stabbed a 75 year old author, on our American shores, who had been living under a death warrant for 30 years。 Recently women were shot at and beaten in the street for daring to ask for a job and education。 。。。more

Doug Bradley

I found the story difficult to follow at times。 The two main characters went through wild transformations and spent time in long dream sequences。 Some of the time it was difficult to know when the story was in a dream sequence or in real time。 A working knowledge of major religions is helpful in understanding the story。

Sanford Chee

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers。 To view it, click here。 What could Salman have written that prompted Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa on him?https://www。theguardian。com/books/202。。。 What could Salman have written that prompted Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa on him?https://www。theguardian。com/books/202。。。 。。。more

Muhammad Dawood

Useless。dont read

©hrissie ❁ [Catching up, Slowly-but-Surely]

🔊 They did NOT get him❗❗ 🙏🙏🙏❤️

Chrissie

I never knew a god or his creations to be so。。。 this has all happened before elsewhere。 Time is a helix。 We could one or two fewer cults in this galaxy far away, long ago。。。

Justpassingby

Read the Dutch translation decades ago and enjoyed the satire, or at least the part of it that I thought I understood。 I have forgotten many of the storylines since then。 Given current events I am probably going to take it up again。

Mady

Given what has just happened, I feel this is the right time to finally read one of Salman Rushdie’s books!

Yimaje Adil

Skukululu

B Jaya

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers。 To view it, click here。 It's mandatory for the future generations to read it 。 It's mandatory for the future generations to read it 。 。。。more

Geoffrey Fox

The news of the stabbing of Salman Rushdie (2022。08。12) has made me want to celebrate once again this wonderful, hilarious satyrical novel。 Which I now want to reread。 I just found my handwritten review from my journal, written shortly after its publication。 Here I've typed it out, as a place-holder for what should be a more thorough, thoughtful essay, taking account of the extreme violence for which this very clever comedy has been a pretext:(From my journal, 2 April 1989:)Salman Rushdie, The S The news of the stabbing of Salman Rushdie (2022。08。12) has made me want to celebrate once again this wonderful, hilarious satyrical novel。 Which I now want to reread。 I just found my handwritten review from my journal, written shortly after its publication。 Here I've typed it out, as a place-holder for what should be a more thorough, thoughtful essay, taking account of the extreme violence for which this very clever comedy has been a pretext:(From my journal, 2 April 1989:)Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses。 NY: Viking, 1988。 547 pp。Gibreel Farishta, star of countless Indian “theologicals,” and Saladin Chamchala, an Anglicized Indian actor who specializes in voices for commercials, are blown out of an Air India plan, the “Bostan,” over London and tumble, unhurt but transformed, to earth。 Gibreel, whose movie name (not his real one, which I forget) means Gabriel Angel, becomes — at least in his dreams and his later madness, and possibly in fact — the Archangel Gabriel。 Saladin Chamchala — shortened from the Urdu, Salahuddin Chamchawalla — becomes goat-like, with horns, hooves and an enormous prick; is he satyr or Satan?Farishta is the perfectly eclectic Indian, absorbing all the religions and accepting all the customs of his homeland and thinking the English are a bit weird。 At one point, believing himself to be the archangel, he decides to tropicalize England — giving it a tropical climate will improve everybody’s behavior, he believes。Saladin is the hyper assimilated Indian, loving England more than the English do。Much of the book is taken up with Gibreel’s dreams, first of the founding of Islam (“Submission”) by Mohammad (“Mahound”), and later of another, modern Ayeesha, a young girl who leads a whole Indian village on a pilgrimage to Mecca, in which those whose faith is strong walk through the Arabian sea。Ending is disappointing… [but I won’t give it away here: read the book and have some good laughs, at the contradictions and improvisations of immigration and transcultural confusion]。 。。。more

Ramiro Diaz

Long live Salman Rushdie

Lina AL Ojaili

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers。 To view it, click here。 كلام رواية مبني ع قصة باطلة عن رسول وسندها ضعيف يعني تحليل وشرح ع اساس باطل انا مع حرية اعتقاد والنقد بس بكلام منطقي

John Poulain

So this coming up for free on audible I wanted to find out what could be written to threaten a man's life, starting it I really couldn't find anything objectionable, two men survive a fall from a great height by singing songs and flapping their arms and afterwards are put on a collision course that stretches back into their past and on into their future。Gibreal (after the archangel) plays in the theological films, but at the beginning he is playing Ganesh and other characters, Saladin is wishing So this coming up for free on audible I wanted to find out what could be written to threaten a man's life, starting it I really couldn't find anything objectionable, two men survive a fall from a great height by singing songs and flapping their arms and afterwards are put on a collision course that stretches back into their past and on into their future。Gibreal (after the archangel) plays in the theological films, but at the beginning he is playing Ganesh and other characters, Saladin is wishing he could move to L-O-N D-O-N and dealing with a withholding father。 Learning that in England they only wipe their bums with paper, and that its like a kipper, full of one's and no one will tell you how to eat it。These comical observations and odd encounters and mystical happening continue until the book starts talking about Mahmoud, at which point the objections to the book start to become clearer, the eponymous Verses where three deities other than Allah are revealed and especially when the apostate starts to say that Mahmoud couldn't recognise the word of Allah when it was read back to him, that it was awfully convenient that the "very business like Mahmoud had found such a businesslike God" that the backup from Archangels when he'd made an argument was too convenient and how restrictive the rules were on how to fart, or go to the toilet or live at all。I liked the various diatribes and characters but can't really comment on the more controversial elements as I'm not well versed in them, however I'm not sure that they add as much to the story as the other parts。 。。。more