Hitoshi Igarashi was a Japanese scholar of Arabic and Persian literature and history and the Japanese translator of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses. " His murder remains unsolved.
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Hitoshi Igarashi was a Japanese scholar of Arabic and Persian literature and history and the Japanese translator of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses. He was murdered in the wake of fatwas issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran - who, by the time of Igarashi's murder, had died - calling for the death of the book's author and "those involved in its publication." His murder remains unsolved.
Country
JapanCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1947 to 1991 · aged 44
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19 languages
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