After the publication of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses (1988), the poetics of incitement-- found in texts originating in the West containing themes and representations of Islam hurtful to Muslims--became an accepted method of textual production in the West. Production of such texts intensified after the attacks of 9/11. Democratic Criticism: Poetics of Incitement and the Muslim Sacred by Masood Ashraf Raja urges a new mode of...