“‘The Satanic Verses’ are in no way blasphemous”

L’next year, the Tunisian Islamologist Hamadi Redissi, professor of political science at the University of Tunis, will publish a book on freedom of expression in Islam at Le Seuil. Of course, he said he was terribly affected by the attack on Salman Rushdie, an attack which is a great misfortune for this specialist in modern Islam. At Seuil, Redissi has already published several works, in particular The Pact of Naj. Or how sectarian Islam became Islamwhich is a history of Wahhabism, as well as The Tragedy of Modern Islam. He is the academic who most scrupulously studied the progressive genesis of a doctrine of blasphemy in the twelfth^e century, this blasphemy of which the Iranian regime had once accused the author of the satanic verses. It takes us back ten centuries…