ABSTRACT
Rushdie has undeniably great artistic talents, and The Satanic Verses is a crowded, elusive and sophisticated tale. Rushdie's characters, even biblical ones, speak a slangy, street-wise dialogue; in the context of The Satanic Verses, it is entirely natural for Hagar to refer to Abraham as a bastard for abandoning her in a waterless valley. But the fundamentalist Muslim critics ripped this word out of concshdie. The Satanic Verses appears to comprise two distinct novels, and indeed, this seems to be its origins. The Muslim Reaction because the Satanic verses incident derives from Tabari and several other impeccable sources of information about the life of Muhammad, Muslims must deal with it. The most authoritative Muslim sources on the life of Muhammad, a Meccan convert by the name of Ibn Abi Sarh emigrated to Medina, where he served as Muhammad's secretary.
