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He will recover, but it seems unlikely he’ll return as the raconteur of old (as I knew him during my visits to Emory University, Georgia, where for five years during 2006-2011 he was a short-term writer-in-residence, and where his archive had been installed).
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As his agent Andrew Wylie has said, he may lose an eye and perhaps even the use of an arm. Vahid Salemi/APĪlthough Rushdie is now off a ventilator, his wounds remain serious. One title reads in Farsi, ‘Knife in the neck of Salman Rushdie’. The front pages of the Augedition of Iranian newspapers. He had lived more freely in recent years, often dispensing with security guards for protection.
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(But without the important step of conceding that a fatwa by a qualified scholar of Islam – which Khomeini was – could be revoked.) Rushdie himself had not taken the occasional threats to his life seriously. Since the fatwa, the spectre of death has followed Rushdie – and he knew it, even when the Iranian government ostensibly withdrew its support for the fatwa. The latter is captured in the well-known Farsi saying, Ba khuda diwana basho ba muhammad hoshiyar (Take liberties with Allah as you wish but be careful with Muhammad). And so the author stood condemned.īlasphemy against Muhammad is an unpardonable crime in Islam: a kind of divine sanctity surrounds the Prophet of Islam. But because of a common belief in the shared identity of author and narrator, the author is deemed to be responsible for a character’s words and actions. These, of course, are presented as hallucinatory recollections by the novel’s seemingly deranged character, Gibreel Farishta. The most serious was the suggestion that Muhammad didn’t solely edit the message of Angel Gibreel (Gabriel) – that Satan himself had a hand in occasionally distorting that message.