Satanic Verses

Quality:

Satanic Verses - utterances mistaken for Islamic revelation. Article “Satanic Verses” in English Wikipedia has 61 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 65 references and 12 sections.

This article has the best quality in Malay Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Satanic Verses”, its content was written by 405 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1052 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 45 times in English Wikipedia and cited 426 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #603 in December 2002
• Global: #1068 in August 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1042 in August 2022
• Global: #838 in August 2022

There are 23 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Malay (ms) Ayat-ayat Syaitan		76.891
2	English (en) Satanic Verses		60.9592
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Sataniske vers		47.075
4	Indonesian (id) Ayat-Ayat Setan		42.93
5	Azerbaijani (az) Şeytan ayələri		42.6691
6	Norwegian (no) Sataniske vers		40.5413
7	Persian (fa) غرانیق		35.1199
8	German (de) Satanische Verse		32.999
9	French (fr) Versets sataniques du Coran		32.6895
10	Finnish (fi) Saatanalliset jakeet		32.0177

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Satanic Verses		2 830 082
2	Persian (fa) غرانیق		573 380
3	Arabic (ar) قصة الغرانيق		566 249
4	French (fr) Versets sataniques du Coran		351 559
5	Turkish (tr) Şeytan ayetleri		319 677
6	German (de) Satanische Verse		278 808
7	Polish (pl) Szatańskie wersety		196 487
8	Italian (it) Versetti satanici		140 913
9	Russian (ru) Сатанинские аяты		134 976
10	Dutch (nl) Duivelsverzen		102 884

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Satanic Verses		8 091
2	Persian (fa) غرانیق		2 168
3	French (fr) Versets sataniques du Coran		882
4	Russian (ru) Сатанинские аяты		733
5	Turkish (tr) Şeytan ayetleri		718
6	German (de) Satanische Verse		351
7	Indonesian (id) Ayat-Ayat Setan		270
8	Dutch (nl) Duivelsverzen		216
9	Polish (pl) Szatańskie wersety		204
10	Italian (it) Versetti satanici		198

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Satanic Verses		405
2	German (de) Satanische Verse		103
3	Persian (fa) غرانیق		91
4	French (fr) Versets sataniques du Coran		67
5	Russian (ru) Сатанинские аяты		62
6	Turkish (tr) Şeytan ayetleri		54
7	Arabic (ar) قصة الغرانيق		46
8	Dutch (nl) Duivelsverzen		45
9	Italian (it) Versetti satanici		34
10	Indonesian (id) Ayat-Ayat Setan		20

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Azerbaijani (az) Şeytan ayələri		3
2	Catalan (ca) Versicles satànics		1
3	Tamil (ta) சாத்தானிக் வெர்சஸ்		1
4	Arabic (ar) قصة الغرانيق		0
5	Czech (cs) Satanské verše		0
6	German (de) Satanische Verse		0
7	English (en) Satanic Verses		0
8	Persian (fa) غرانیق		0
9	Finnish (fi) Saatanalliset jakeet		0
10	French (fr) Versets sataniques du Coran		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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