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On the eve of India’s 75th anniversary of independence (August 15), the 75-year-old Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times on stage in New York. Thankfully, the author survived the attack. But you might be wondering how a writer came to be the target of such violence.

When news broke on August 12, 2022, that the writer Salman Rushdie had been attacked, many people immediately recalled the fatwa, or edict, calling on all Muslims to take his life, issued in 1989 by the Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran’s Supreme Leader at the time. Khomeini accused Rushdie’s 1988…

In 1989, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini, who led the Islamic revolution in Iran ten years earlier, issued a fatwa – a religious edict – calling for the death of author Salman Rushdie. More than three decades later, at a literary event in New York state, a man who was…

As the author lies in hospital with life-changing injuries, Amy Francombe looks back at his controversial career and how he came to have a fatwa on his head

The 1989 fatwa imposed by Iran's late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on Salman Rushdie for his novel “the Satanic Verses” has haunted many liberal novelists and thinkers whose writings were also seen as insulting to Islam and the Prophet Mohammad.

Foreign ministry spokesperson blames author and supporters after stabbing that left him with ‘life-changing’ injuries

In first official remarks, Tehran rejects responsibility for attack on author even as it heaps scorn on him

Summer vacations are coming to an end – though not everyone took one.

One of his previous novels, Satanic Verses, has been banned in a number of countries and led to a bounty being placed on the author’s head.

The Taliban marked the first anniversary of their return to power in Afghanistan with a national holiday Monday, following a turbulent year that saw women's rights crushed and a humanitarian crisis worsen. Exactly a year ago, the hardline Taliban captured Kabul after their nationwide lightning offensive against government forces ended…

His book was banned in 45 Islamic countries, with hundreds of British Muslims endorsing the death sentence