For Rushdie: Essays by Arab and Muslim Writers in Defense of Free Speech.

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By Arab and Muslim Writers in Defense of Free Speech translated by Kevin Anderson and Kenneth Whitehead George Braziller. 308 pp. $27.50, cloth; $14.95, paper.

The fatwa issued against Salman Rushdie, the author of The Satanic Verses, by the late Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran remains in effect after six years. From time to time, Khomeini's successors reaffirm Rushdie's death sentence and the reward they offer for his assassination. Rushdie remains in hiding. His book's Italian translator has been seriously wounded, and the Japanese translator has been killed. Since Rushdie's persecutors claim to speak for Muslims...

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