Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie lost sight in one eye and the use of one hand following an attack on stage at a literary event in western New York in August.

Acclaimed Mumbai-born author Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed onstage at a literary event in New York two months ago, is tipped by bookmakers as one of the favourites to win this year's Nobel prize for literature on Thursday, a media report said.

All right-thinking people, including Muslims, need to take a public stand against this kind of mindless violence.

In its first reaction to the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie, India on Thursday condemned the "horrific attack" and wished him a speedy recovery.

A week after author Salman Rushdie was stabbed onstage at a literary event, writers and friends of the Mumbai-born author gathered at the New York Public Library and read from his works, expressing their solidarity with him and his "relentless"

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has termed the attempted murder of Salman Rushdie as "terrible and sad," indicating that while the anger in the Islamic world at the Mumbai-born author's novel "The Satanic Verses" was understandable.

The man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie at a literary event pleaded not guilty on Thursday to attempted murder and assault charges at a court hearing in upstate New York.

The man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie said he respected Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini but would not say if he was inspired by a fatwa issued by the former Iranian leader.

The New Jersey man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie told the New York Post in an interview published Wednesday that he was "surprised" the author had survived the attack.

The man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie said he respected Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and he read a couple of pages from Salman Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses".

The 1989 fatwa imposed by Iran's late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on Salman Rushdie for his novel "the Satanic Verses" has haunted many liberal novelists and thinkers whose writings were also seen as insulting to Islam and the Prophet Mohammad.

The 1989 fatwa imposed by Iran's late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on Salman Rushdie for his novel "the Satanic Verses" has haunted many liberal novelists whose writings were seen as insulting to Islam.

It is "ludicrous" to suggest that novelist Salman Rushdie was responsible for the attack on him, a spokesman for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday

Salman Rushdie is "pulling through" and is on the "road to recovery", his former wife and celebrated TV personality Padma Lakshmi said on Sunday, two days after the Mumbai-born author was stabbed in New York.

Hadi Matar rushed onto stage in New York when Salman Rushdie was about to give a lecture on Friday and stabbed him multiple times.

Salman Rushdie lost sight in one eye and the use of one hand following an attack on stage at a literary event in western New York in August.

Acclaimed Mumbai-born author Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed onstage at a literary event in New York two months ago, is tipped by bookmakers as one of the favourites to win this year's Nobel prize for literature on Thursday, a media report said.

All right-thinking people, including Muslims, need to take a public stand against this kind of mindless violence.

In its first reaction to the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie, India on Thursday condemned the "horrific attack" and wished him a speedy recovery.

A week after author Salman Rushdie was stabbed onstage at a literary event, writers and friends of the Mumbai-born author gathered at the New York Public Library and read from his works, expressing their solidarity with him and his "relentless"

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has termed the attempted murder of Salman Rushdie as "terrible and sad," indicating that while the anger in the Islamic world at the Mumbai-born author's novel "The Satanic Verses" was understandable.

The man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie at a literary event pleaded not guilty on Thursday to attempted murder and assault charges at a court hearing in upstate New York.

The man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie said he respected Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini but would not say if he was inspired by a fatwa issued by the former Iranian leader.

The New Jersey man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie told the New York Post in an interview published Wednesday that he was "surprised" the author had survived the attack.

The man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie said he respected Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and he read a couple of pages from Salman Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses".

The 1989 fatwa imposed by Iran's late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on Salman Rushdie for his novel "the Satanic Verses" has haunted many liberal novelists and thinkers whose writings were also seen as insulting to Islam and the Prophet Mohammad.

The 1989 fatwa imposed by Iran's late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on Salman Rushdie for his novel "the Satanic Verses" has haunted many liberal novelists whose writings were seen as insulting to Islam.

It is "ludicrous" to suggest that novelist Salman Rushdie was responsible for the attack on him, a spokesman for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday

Salman Rushdie is "pulling through" and is on the "road to recovery", his former wife and celebrated TV personality Padma Lakshmi said on Sunday, two days after the Mumbai-born author was stabbed in New York.

Hadi Matar rushed onto stage in New York when Salman Rushdie was about to give a lecture on Friday and stabbed him multiple times.