Template:Did you know nominations/Verses of Love (novel)

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The result was: promoted by Maculosae tegmine lyncis (talk) 01:55, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

Verses of Love (novel)

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• ... that the Indonesian novel Verses of Love has been read as a challenge to Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses?

• Source: *Sakai, Minako (2012). "Preaching to Muslim Youth in Indonesia: The Dakwah Activities of Habiburrahman El Shirazy". Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affair. 46 (1): 9–31. One of the reasons why Habib wrote Ayat Ayat Cinta was that he wanted to compete against the Satanic Verses of Salman Rushdie which is seen by many Muslims as an insult against Muhammad and Islam. Habib believed that in the West the image of Islam was so tarnished that those who do not know anything about Islam feel fearful about Islam and Muslims

• • ALT1: ... that the protagonist of best-selling Indonesian novel Verses of Love has been criticized as overly perfect? Source: Best seller: Widodo, Amrih (Aug–Oct 2008). "Writing for God: Piety and Consumption in Popular Islam". Inside Indonesia. 93. Archived from the original on 22 September 2008. Retrieved 4 March 2026.; overly perfect: Rani, Mohd. Zariat Abdul (2012). "Islam, Romance and Popular Taste in Indonesia". Indonesia and the Malay World. 40 (116): 59–73. doi:10.1080/13639811.2011.648998.
  • ALT2: ... that, although the protagonist of best-selling Indonesian novel Verses of Love has been criticized as overly perfect, this perfection has been argued to move the plot forward? Source: Best seller: Widodo, Amrih (Aug–Oct 2008). "Writing for God: Piety and Consumption in Popular Islam". Inside Indonesia. 93. Archived from the original on 22 September 2008. Retrieved 4 March 2026.; overly perfect: Rani, Mohd. Zariat Abdul (2012). "Islam, Romance and Popular Taste in Indonesia". Indonesia and the Malay World. 40 (116): 59–73. doi:10.1080/13639811.2011.648998.
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Created by Crisco 1492 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 773 past nominations.

 — Chris Woodrich (talk) 19:22, 16 March 2026 (UTC).

• I'll review this tomorrow. ミラP@Miraclepine 04:29, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Moved to mainspace five days ago, prose 10kB. I had reservations against ALT0, but then that's because the source attached was confusing on its own; instead it's more like an outside academic observed interpreted the motive as such, and when combined by a news source where the author personally denies this makes it even more of an observation. (Also, The Satanic Verses is widely known for the global Islamic backlash Ayatollah Khomeini incited, so it helps ALT0's case for DYKINT.) Not much worth nothing outside of minor fixes. ミラP@Miraclepine 21:41, 21 March 2026 (UTC)