As of 5 p.m. on Friday, Salman Rushdie was still undergoing surgery after he was stabbed several hours earlier by an assailant who the authorities have identified as Hadi Matar, a man from New Jersey who is 24 years old. Matar allegedly attacked Rushdie. Mr. Matar is said to have jumped onto the stage and attacked…

Since approximately six months after the publication of his novel "The Satanic Verses" in 1989, Salman Rushdie has been living under death threats. This occurred shortly after the book mythologized parts of the life of the Prophet Muhammad with depictions that many Muslims found offensive, and some even considered to be sacrilegious. After the Iranian Revolution of…

Mr. Rushdie who had been threatened for some time was stabbed by a 24-year-old guy from New Jersey in the neck and abdomen. It was not evident why. Salman Rushdie went into hiding for a long time when the Iranian government issued a death warrant for him after the publication of "The Satanic Verses ". In more…

Novelist Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie CH FRSL was born in India and currently lives in the United Kingdom. His writing frequently combines magical realism with historical fiction and focuses mostly on the links, disturbances, and migrations that occurred between Eastern and Western civilizations while taking place on the Indian subcontinent. His stories are commonly set in…

Author Salma Rushdie is a British-American author of Indian descent. He is the author of almost a dozen different publications. Since the late 1980s, his novel The Satanic Verses has been illegal in Iran due to widespread condemnation among Muslims for its blasphemous content. Rushdie, whose work has inspired death threats, was attacked and stabbed on Friday…