What are the Satanic Verses ?

Question

And why do people get condemnede to be killed if they do investigate or talk about them ?

Answer 1

Verses of Kuran which were editted .

Mohammad needed to get support and acceptence of kuran by Kuraish clan. It was quite strong. It believed Allah had three daughters. They were very respected deities.

Mohammad said Allah revealed to him that they are indeed sacred and their worship be allowed. Kuraish thought there beliefs are getting sanctioned and joined in.

The temples of daughters were near Kaba itself. Afterwards Mohammad declared that Satan played a trick on him and these verses which sanction worshipping the Sisters were his revealation. God had not sent those ones.

So they were called satanic verses and editted and dropped from Kuran.

It was sheer politics on part of Mohammad. And a sensitive issue among Muslims. Because if satan could make a fool of Mohammad once, why he could not have done other times?

Mention of the verses got Salman Rashdi a Fatawa agaist him.

Answer 2

some time in the late 1980s a british author, salman rushdie, wrote a book that allegedly portrays the quoran (the holy book of islam) in a very negative light

im not sure if the book is fact or fiction, but islamic clerics and extremists types offered a bounty on mr. rushdie's head for this act, there were also numerous death threats issues from groups in the middle east

rushdie went into a period of hiding for about 10 years and as far as i know, with the exception of a few scant interviews to magazines and obscure publications he is still in hiding

you can find out more from wikipedia or by entering "satanic verses" or salmen rushdie into a search engine

Answer 3

It is a book. The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's fourth novel, first published in 1988 and inspired in part by the life of Muhammad. The title refers to the Satanic Verses, an attempted interpolation in the Qur'an described by Ibn Ishaq in his biography of Muhammad (the oldest surviving text). Many Muslims find Ibn Ishaq's story deeply disturbing and reject it as myth, while many Muslim scholars also reject the story as historically improbable and weakly attested.
The novel caused much controversy upon publication in 1988, as many Muslims considered that it contained blasphemous references. India was the first country to ban the book. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, who was also a Shi'a Muslim scholar then issued a fatwa which called for the death of Rushdie and claimed that it was the duty of every Muslim to obey. On February 14, 1989, the Ayatollah broadcast the following message on Iranian radio: "I inform the proud Muslim people of the world that the author of the Satanic Verses book, which is against Islam, the Prophet and the Qur'an, and all those involved in its publication who are aware of its content are sentenced to death" 1. As a result, Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese translator of the book was stabbed to death in July 1991, Ettore Capriolo, the Italian translator, was seriously injured in a stabbing the same month, and William Nygaard, the publisher in Norway, survived an attempted assassination in Oslo in October 1991. On February 14, 2006, the Iranian state news agency reported that the fatwa will remain in place permanently.

Answer 4

The Satanic Verses is a book by Salmud Rushdie who proposed the theory that a scribe began to corrupt the Word of Allah and the Koran is not really representative of Allah's thoughts.

Answer 5

it's a novel written by Salman Rushdie that upset a lot of Muslims. It took some liberties with the portrayal of Muhammed, even calling him "Mahound" in several places.

The Iranian Ayatollah Khoumeini issued a "fatwah" against Rushdie's life.

Answer 6

Salman is still alive and kicking! He is written many more books since but none as exciting.

There is nobody to restrict you if you want to research such a topic. The book does draw a bit from bit of a tradition and bit of a myth but i think it is more of a hilarious novel drawing arbitrarily from a lot of things including Indian film Industry, orientalist lampooning of Islam, crusader stereotypes and British politics.

Answer 7

Do you mean the book by Salman Rushdie? You can read the reviews on Amazon.

Answer 8

This was a lovely book that got its author assassinated for writing a few years back.

Answer 9

I have no idea. Research satanic literature.

Answer 10

lords prayer backwards???