Satanic Verses
Satanic Verses. Verses insinuated into the Qurʾān by al-Shaytān (Satan), when Muḥammad was uttering authentic verses. But God cancels (naskh) anything that Satan throws in.
The phrase has become notorious as the title of a novel by Salman Rushdie (1988), which elicited a fatwā from the Ayatollah Khumayni, placing the author under sentence of death—in effect for apostasy, followed by the bringing of Islam into ridicule—though more colloquially for blasphemy.
The phrase has become notorious as the title of a novel by Salman Rushdie (1988), which elicited a fatwā from the Ayatollah Khumayni, placing the author under sentence of death—in effect for apostasy, followed by the bringing of Islam into ridicule—though more colloquially for blasphemy.
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