05-25-2004, 07:31 PM
Salaam Alaikum!
If you like insolent, scurrilous literature, then the book was for you. There is nothing inseparable in Salman Rushdie's book than there is in Vladimir Nobakov's books. The popularity behind the book was obviously erected from the protests and riots. Beyond that there's nothing uniquely prodigious about Rushdie than there is of the Medieval Baghdadi-- Jewish Philosopher Ibn Kumurna (hence Ibn kumuna—wink!).
Not to be a about it, but as an admirer of ethical theory, I noticed some mendacious statements by Rushdie (after the affair of course) which leave me confused on why he had written the book in the first place (e.g. moral relativism, confusion of hadith stories, chronology and so on).
--Ibn