The Rushdie Affair: The Novel, the Ayatollah, and the West

Daniel Pipes, Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, explains why the publication of The Satanic Verses became a cataclysmic event, with far-reaching consequences. Pipes details what the fundamentalists perceived, and what the novel actually said, that proved so offensive to some Muslims.

• Author
• Daniel Pipes

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 269

• Publisher
• Carol Publishing Corporation

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781559720250

• Genres
• history, religion

• Release date
• 1990