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اية محمود Aya Mahmoud asked this question about The Satanic Verses:
when a novel is controversial enough to cause deaths and death threats I start doubting the author's talent, so could someone answer me honestly and impartially, is this controversial novel actually a good piece of fiction or is it just going to anger me as a Muslim is I tried to read it and add nothing good?
Francesco Castellani I wonder how one can find this insulting to Islam, when all Rushdie is doing is referencing an incident, that of the Satanic Verses, which is well kno…moreI wonder how one can find this insulting to Islam, when all Rushdie is doing is referencing an incident, that of the Satanic Verses, which is well known among Islamic scholars (see al-Wāqidī, Ibn Sa'd and the tafsir of al-Tabarī.) It used to even be accepted in Islam, until someone came along and revisited the interpretation, saying that it was no longer convenient to accept it as a fact. This sounds like manipulation to me, and if one has to be angry, one has to be angry at the manipulator, not at someone who built a piece of fiction around an incident that is well documented in Islamic history. (less)
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