- Hardcover: 432 pages
- Publisher: Ballantine Books (2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0345503163
- ISBN-13: 978-0345503169
- Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,229,075 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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26 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Because publication of this book was pulled on the grounds of the furore it might create.
Some call it censorship, others cowardice, but the one thing Random House will not do, apparently, is let us Amazon buyers and readers make up our own minds.
Go do something about this, or go back to sleep.
Some call it censorship, others cowardice, but the one thing Random House will not do, apparently, is let us Amazon buyers and readers make up our own minds.
Go do something about this, or go back to sleep.
21 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I bought this book for the same reason as I bought the first edition of
Rushdie's Satanic Verses. Attempts to murder Rushdie seemed to me to be
an attempt to kill off the right to freedom of speech. Setting
fire to the home/office of the London publisher who decided to publish
the Jewel of Medina is in a similar category. Buying the books
is the best way of preserving the freedom.
Satanic Verses as a work of literature took some reading
and in the end I couldn't see what all the fuss was about.
At first glance The Jewel of Medina seems far more light weight
a novel. Not something which God is likely to be too bothered
by, any more than he is by say "Father Ted" or the "Life of Brian".
I shall try to read it and may be post again but buying the book
is the best response to those who under the guise of religion,
seek to bully, using threats of violence and even death.
Rushdie's Satanic Verses. Attempts to murder Rushdie seemed to me to be
an attempt to kill off the right to freedom of speech. Setting
fire to the home/office of the London publisher who decided to publish
the Jewel of Medina is in a similar category. Buying the books
is the best way of preserving the freedom.
Satanic Verses as a work of literature took some reading
and in the end I couldn't see what all the fuss was about.
At first glance The Jewel of Medina seems far more light weight
a novel. Not something which God is likely to be too bothered
by, any more than he is by say "Father Ted" or the "Life of Brian".
I shall try to read it and may be post again but buying the book
is the best response to those who under the guise of religion,
seek to bully, using threats of violence and even death.
17 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Don't Believe Everything You Read
First thing in the a.m. after publication of Asra Q. Nomani's editorial about "The Jewel of Medina," misinformation abounds. But I can't talk about the publisher's decision not to publish -- not until Random House/Ballantine says so, for reasons I can't disclose ;-(. But I can correct at least one inaccuracy: My book is not a "bodice-ripper," as one blogger (who obviously hadn't read the book) called it. Nor, in my opinion, is it particularly "racy," as Ms. Nomani, who HAS read the book, described it. Denise Spellberg, the UT professor who started all this, called it "soft porn" -- which makes me feel like a literary master, able to write a pornographic novel without sex scenes!
Bloggers are going wild, reading all kinds of things into Ms. Nomani's excellent opinion piece. Some believe the Random House assertion that several people warned of potential terrorist attack. If so, that's news to me. The only one I was told about was Ms. Spellberg.
Ironically, I've been castigated in some of these blogs by writers who haven't read the book and who mis-read the editorial piece. Being called an "Islamopanderer" is the most ironic. All I did was try to portray A'isha, Muhammad's child bride
First thing in the a.m. after publication of Asra Q. Nomani's editorial about "The Jewel of Medina," misinformation abounds. But I can't talk about the publisher's decision not to publish -- not until Random House/Ballantine says so, for reasons I can't disclose ;-(. But I can correct at least one inaccuracy: My book is not a "bodice-ripper," as one blogger (who obviously hadn't read the book) called it. Nor, in my opinion, is it particularly "racy," as Ms. Nomani, who HAS read the book, described it. Denise Spellberg, the UT professor who started all this, called it "soft porn" -- which makes me feel like a literary master, able to write a pornographic novel without sex scenes!
Bloggers are going wild, reading all kinds of things into Ms. Nomani's excellent opinion piece. Some believe the Random House assertion that several people warned of potential terrorist attack. If so, that's news to me. The only one I was told about was Ms. Spellberg.
Ironically, I've been castigated in some of these blogs by writers who haven't read the book and who mis-read the editorial piece. Being called an "Islamopanderer" is the most ironic. All I did was try to portray A'isha, Muhammad's child bride
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