Title

Salman Rushdie hopes fatwa will be lifted

Genre

Interview

TX Date

28 Dec 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:02:51

Description

Author of The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie on the positive response from Muslim groups in Britain following his new commitment to Islam. On his hopes that the process of understanding will spread to Muslims elsewhere in the world and that Iran’s religious leaders in Tehran will lift the fatwa on his life so that he will be able to move around freely. James Matthews interviewing.

Contributors

Salman Rushdie; James Matthews

Keywords

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

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