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Speaking of Stories transforming
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SALMAN RUSHDIE Salman Rushdie (1947- )Born
in The
Satanic Verses (1988),
a novel combining fantasy, philosophical ruminations, and comic aspects, was
well received, but it also aroused the ire of many Muslims, who considered it an
attack on the Qur'an
(Koran), Muhammad,
and the Islamic faith. As a result of demonstrations, Although Rushdie offered an
apology and a formal statement of his adherence to Islam, the fatwa was not
lifted, and he remained in hiding until late 1991, when he began to make
isolated and unscheduled appearances and to allow a few interviews. In 1995,
despite the continuance of the death threat, Rushdie began making television
appearances, granting more frequent interviews, and giving public readings of
his works. The Iranian government eventually backed away from the fatwa, but
some religious groups still consider it active. In 1995 Rushdie's collection
of short stories East, West appeared. The
Moor's Last Sigh, also published in 1995, is a novel about the last
surviving member of a brilliant multiethnic Indian family that traces its
lineage to the last Moorish sultan of Granada, Spain. The
Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999), Rushdie's first novel set largely in the
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