Rushdie
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- proper noun
- /ˈrʌʃdi/
- In 1988, Salman Rushdie published 'The Satanic Verses,' which ignited a major controversy.
- Salman Rushdie
- Rushdie's Satanic Verses
- Rushdie's Midnight's Children
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Watch on YouTubeSort of the counter I have read, I read Rushdie.
- Sort of the counter I have read, I read Rushdie.
- And don't forget Ayatollah Khomeini at that time with the same guy who put fatwa on Salman Rushdie, who written the book Satanic Verses.
- Margaret Atwood, Gloria Steinem, Wynton Marsalis, Malcolm Gladwell, Salman Rushdie, Noam Chomsky, most of them whom or all of whom are liberal, right, liberal minded.
- So I wasn't one of his close inner circle of friends like Salman Rushdie or, or Martin Amis.
- I think I think Salman Rushdie is, you know, for what he's been through recently is just phenomenal.
- But if I say Salman Rushdie got stabbed by this guy who's just a nut job, he's basically but it.
Examples
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Khomeini's fatwa against Indian-born British author Salman Rushdie also poisoned relations.
Academic text (2008) -
Writers like Salman Rushdie, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and Arundhati Roy have become famous.
Fiction book (1999) -
The waiter continued, "I hear that Rushdie will be making an appearance."
Fiction book (2002) -
You've never read anything by Rushdie?
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Over the course of the novel, Rushdie dazzles us with multiple versions of reality.
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Again, what Salman Rushdie wrote in his novel is based on some very reliable historical scholarship.
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Westerners have argued that as a novelist, Rushdie had a right to write anything he wanted.
Academic text (1999) -
In that sense, writers like Rushdie and Achebe offer examples of true multiculturalism.
Academic text (1998) -
While you're at it, you also might want to read Rushdie's latest book "Joseph Anton."
Blog text (31) -
Most Muslim countries banned Salman Rushdie's novel, The Satanic Verses, because they viewed it as blasphemous and morally repugnant.
Academic text (1999)
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rushdie is a family name from South Asia and is related to the Arabic name Rashid, which means 'rightly guided'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of Salman Rushdie, the novelist who has this last name.