The Satanic Verses wasn’t Rushdie’s first book, or even his second. Published in 1988, it was his fourth novel, and by then Rushdie already had found profound success.

Since "The Satanic Verses" was published in 1988, many Muslims found the dream sequence based on the life of the Prophet Muhammad as blasphemous. Rushdie's book is banned in several countries ...

Salman Rushdie’s controversial 1988 novel Satanic Verses has made its way back to Indian bookshops, decades after being banned for sparking riots and outrage.

Rushdie's book, "The Satanic Verses," has sparked controversy since its publish in 1988 for its depiction of the prophet Muhammad. In 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for the deaths ...

Hitoshi Igarashi, who was the first Japanese scholar to translate Salman Rushdie ’s book The Satanic Verses, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in 1991. Since then several translators ...

The book, “Satanic Verses,” goes to the heart of Muslim religious beliefs when Rushdie, in dream sequences, challenges and sometimes seems to mock some of its most sensitive tenets.

Besides the ban in his native country, “The Satanic Verses” elicited a fatwa calling for Rushdie’s death from Iran’s Ayotollah Ruhollah Khomeini, forcing the author into hiding in 1989.