Sherry Jones Never Expected a Fatwa
when sherry jones told her publishers at ballantine that they should send a copy of her novel about the life of one of muhammad’s wives, the jewel of medina, to islamic studies bookworm denise spellberg, she never anticipated that adventitious house, ballantine’s corporate originator, would upon they were terrified to publish the novel after all. instead of giving ballantine a nice blurb, spellberg called her own editorial writer at knopf and told her putting the book out-dated was tantamount to “a declaration of war” against islam and would purposes lead to terrorist attacks on broadway—and that was sufficiently to put random mad the idea in all.
“Ballantine was hoping to show reviewers that the novel wasn’t just fluffy historical romance,” Jones said during a phone interview yesterday afternoon; an endorsement from Spellberg, the author of Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of ‘A’isha Bint Abi Bakr, would have stood out on the tear sheet as an imprimatur of intellectual credibility. “Spellberg’s book was one of the first I read when I wanted to learn more about A’isha,” Jones recalled, and she was stunned when she found out about Spellberg’s hostile reaction. At first, although confused, Jones tried to be understanding of Spellberg’s inner motives, whatever they might be, “but now that’s she calling it ’soft core pornography,’” she said with a slight laugh, “I really don’t feel that nice anymore.”
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What’s the book really like? You can read the prologue for yourself, since Jones provided Smart Bitches, Trashy Books with a copy. “I haven’t been thumbing my nose at Islam,” Jones stressed to me. “There’s nothing in my book that doesn’t exist in nonfiction, except for a few instances of literary license which are of no great significance.”
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