Based on the conflict of scholar Ibn Rushd (from whom Rushdie's family name derives), Rushdie explores themes of transnationalism and cosmopolitanism by depicting a war of the universe with a supernatural world of jinns.

3 days ago · Rushdie spent years in hiding after the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued the fatwa in 1989 after publication of the novel “The Satanic Verses,” which some Muslims consider blasphemous. In the federal indictment, authorities allege Matar believed the edict was backed by the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah and ...

1 day ago · Rushdie underwent surgery at UPMC Hamot in Erie. The author suffered serious wounds to his neck, chest and torso and lost sight in one eye. Rushdie and Reese are expected to testify at the trial.

3 days ago · Rushdie, who was raised in a Muslim Kashmiri family, went into hiding under the protection of British police in 1989 after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Iran's supreme leader, pronounced "The ...

4 days ago · Mr Rushdie, now 77, is an acclaimed writer who previously spent several years in hiding after the 1988 publication of The Satanic Verses - a fictional story inspired by the life of the Muslim ...

3 days ago · In 2022, Salman Rushdie was about to deliver a lecture before a live audience in western New York when a man ran towards him and plunged a knife into the author’s hand as he raised it in self ...

3 days ago · Rushdie, 77, was stabbed with a knife multiple times in an attack that led to the loss of his right eye and damaged his liver. Matar has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree attempted ...

3 days ago · The New Jersey man charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack is set to stand trial in New York MAYVILLE, N.Y. -- In 2022, Salman Rushdie was about to deliver a ...

Dec 25, 2024 · Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British-American writer whose allegorical novels examine historical and philosophical issues by means of surreal characters, brooding humor, and an effusive and melodramatic prose style.

Salman Rushdie is the author of eleven novels, a Fellow of the British Royal Society of Literature, and won the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (twice)...