Salman Rushdie wrote a novel in English in 1981.
2008 saw the publication of The Enchantress of Florence, one of Rushdie's most challenging works that focuses on the past
In response to the protests, on 22 January 1989, Rushdie published a column in The Observer that called Muhammad "one of the great geniuses of world history," but noted that Islamic doctrine holds Muhammad to be human, and in no way perfect

