Jurors heard how a knife attack on novelist Salman Rushdie unfolded in a matter of seconds at a 2022 New York talk and how ...

A fatwa or death sentence was issued against author Salman Rushdie by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on ...

Khomeini issued the fatwa after Rushdie's popular book The Satanic Verses was published in 1988, which caused Rushdie to go into hiding for nearly a decade. The book uses magical realism to ...

The fatwa, or religious edict, called upon Muslims to kill the novelist and anyone involved in the book’s publication, leading to a multimillion-dollar bounty and the 1991 murder of Rushdie’s ...