The Satanic Verses

The three Rushdies: The novelist, the public intellectual and the apostate

All three fatefully intersected with the publication of The Satanic Verses. What happened to him after that doesn’t need repetition

Explained: What are fatwas and how dangerous can they be?

Fatwa, a legal decree or opinion on a point of Islamic law or practice, is usually given by a high-ranking Islamic religious leader. It is not necessarily violent in nature, but the word's association with the edict against author Salman Rushdie has made it synonymous with a death warrant

Off-centre | The attack on Rushdie is a wake-up call to unite against religious violence

An end to religiously inspired or justified violence the world over is a prerequisite for human peace, progress, and unity

Iran denies involvement in attack on author Salman Rushdie, but justifies attempt

The author of The Satanic Verses was stabbed on Friday while attending an event in western New York. He suffered a damaged liver and severed nerves in an arm and an eye. "In this regard, no one can blame the Islamic Republic of Iran," said Kanaani, spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry

Salman Rushdie attack: Why the world gives Islam such a long rope

Rushdie may lose an eye if he survives, but the rest of us cannot shut our eyes to the everyday barbarism called Islamist violence

Salman Rushdie taken off ventilator and able to talk, day after attack, confirms agent Andrew Wylie

The attack was met with shock and outrage from much of the world, along with tributes and praise for the award-winning author who for more than 30 years has faced death threats for The Satanic Verses

‘Satanic’ Killers: When translators of Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses’ were attacked, killed

Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese translator of The Satanic Verses was murdered. William Nygaard and Ettore Capriolo, the Norwegian and Italian translators were separately attacked but survived

Attack on Salman Rushdie is 'appalling', says White House NSA Jake Sullivan

Rushdie, who faced Islamist death threats for years after writing The Satanic Verses, was stabbed by a 24-year-old New Jersey resident identified as Hadi Matar on stage on Friday

Salman Rushdie on ventilator, likely to lose an eye, liver 'stabbed and damaged', says agent Andrew Wylie

Rushdie was stabbed in the neck as he was on the stage at the Chautauqua Institution, a not-for-profit community on Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York State, where approximately 7,500 people are in residence on any day during a nine-week season

From beheading over Prophet remarks to ‘Kaali’ FIRs, religious hypersensitivity is the latest threat to India

People belonging to religious communities have developed a propensity to feel that their beliefs are under attack