Salamn Rushdie fatwa

Title

Salamn Rushdie fatwa

Genre

Interview

TX Date

24 Dec 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:01:38

Description

Frances de Souza on behalf of Salman Rushdie following Rushdie’s meeting with moderate Muslim leaders, his distancing from the blasphemous statements made by characters in The Satanic Verses and agreement not to publish a paperback edition of the book or have it translated into further languages. De Souza on the campaign to lift the fatwa on Rushdie’s life. Female interviewer not identified.

Contributors

Frances de Souza

Keywords

Books; Authors; Novelists; Novels; Islam; Muslims; Salman Rushdie; The Satanic Verses; Controversial literature; Fatwa

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