What are the "satanic verses"?

Question

I read that those verses was added to the Quran. How true is that?

Answer 1

Satanic Verses is an expression coined by the historian Sir William Muir in reference to several verses allegedly interpolated into an early version of the Qur'ān and later expunged. The story of these verses can be read in (among other places) al-Wāqidī and al-Tabarī's recension of Ibn Ishaq's biography of Muhammad, the Sīrat Rasul Allah, believed to date 120-130 years after the death of Muhammad

Answer 2

No, that's not true.

The Satanic Verses is a book by Salman Rushdie that a few hardcore Muslims got a bit upset over back in the late 1980s, but I think they're over it now.

Answer 3

the satanic verses is a book, written by salman rushdie about the verses in the qur'an and it is against islam.it's really controversial, been banned in many many countries and a fatwa calling fot the author's death was issued soon after its publication.

that's the gist of it. and the following, i picked off wikipedia.

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

Read the book "The Satanic Verses" by Soloman Rushdie! That should enlighten you!

Answer 5

I really need to get my hands on

a. A copy of the Quran
b. A copy of the Book of Mormon.

Then maybe I could answer some of these kinds of questions.

Answer 6

personally...i thinks its BS..a lie told by one religious group to make another religious group look evil.



*my motto* question everything.