Academic Seyed Hossein Mousavian has been accused of having a role in assassinations of over 20 Iranian dissidents.

A fatwa - that is, an Islamic execution order - was then issued against Rushdie and his publishers by the then Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in February 1989. While this ...

Salman Rushdie's 'Knife' is an eloquent, first-person account of the horrific attack on him. It's also a love story ...

IRGC commander had said country would 'review' doctrine if Israel attacked, and imam had urged Khamanei to lift proscription ...

How do you recover from a stranger’s attempt to murder you in front of a thousand people, an attack that leaves you on the ...

A FATWA has been passed on the writer who penned the play portraying Jesus Christ as a homosexual, a militant Islamic leader said yesterday. American writer Terrence McNally, who is gay and a ...

The renowned author reflects on the fatwa ordered against him decades ago for his book “The Satanic Verses” — and surviving a ...

Despite the violence that sent Rushdie to the hospital, “Knife” is a book remarkably void of bitterness and existential ...

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder is not only Rushdie’s account of that violent act — it is also his way of ...

Conversely, imagine “the enemy” as conceived by a man of ressentiment—and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has ...

Rushdie knows, with that strange, intuitive fatwa-defying, free-speech endorsing courage, that this is no way to die. That he ...