Rushdie, an atheist born into a Muslim Kashmiri family in India, has faced death threats since the 1988 publication of his novel "The Satanic Verses", which Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ...

Rushdie had worried for his safety since his 1989 novel “The Satanic Verses ... His other works include the novels “Shame” and “Victory City,” which he completed shortly before ...

Rushdie, who spent most of the 1990s in hiding in the UK after receiving death threats over his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, was stabbed about 15 times: in the head, neck, torso and left hand ...

Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued the fatwa in 1989 after publication of the novel “The Satanic Verses,” which some Muslims consider blasphemous. Rushdie spent years in hiding.

Mr Rushdie, an atheist born into a Muslim Kashmiri family in India, has faced death threats since the 1988 publication of his novel The Satanic Verses, which Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ...