Be careful with Muhammad! : Salman Rushdie and the battle for free speech
Akhtar, Shabbir2020
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The execution of the entire editorial staff of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in January 2015, and the continuing attacks on their Paris headquarters, show that the battle for free speech still rages on with full fury. The trial of a dozen French Muslims, accused of complicity in the Charlie Hebdo killings, has started (October 2020). The struggle for absolute liberty of publication was initiated by Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (1988). Shabbir Akhtar’s Be Careful with Muhammad!, written originally as a critique of Rushdie’s provocation, remains relevant to current debates about the right to offend religious sensibilities.Contents: Preface to the 2nd Edition, Preface to the 1st EditionChapter 1: Be Careful with Muhammad!Chapter 2: Art or Literary Terrorism?Chapter 3: The Liberal InquisitionChapter 4:From Teheran with LoveChapter 5: What’s Wrong with Fundamentalism?Chapter 6: Faith and PowerChapter 7:The Summer of Discontent
Main title:
Be careful with Muhammad! : Salman Rushdie and the battle for free speech / Written by Shabbir Akhtar
Author:
Edition:
2nd edition with a new preface
Imprint:
Indonesia : Bijak Publishing, 2020
Collation:
150pp : Paperback / softback ; 201mm x 141mm x 10mm
ISBN:
9786239474218
Dewey class:
823.914 AKH
Language:
English
BRN:
562442