The Satanic Verses

Quality:

The Satanic Verses - 1988 novel by Salman Rushdie. This book is the 157^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 295^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Satanic Verses” in Simple English Wikipedia has 14.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 1 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 295^th most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 157^th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “The Satanic Verses”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2047 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Satanic Verses is on the 295^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 157^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 15 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1370 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2225 in July 2014
• Global: #38 in August 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2988 in August 2022
• Global: #10 in August 2022

There are 41 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	German (de) Die satanischen Verse		52.9552
2	English (en) The Satanic Verses		51.2151
3	Catalan (ca) Els Versos Satànics		50.2687
4	French (fr) Les Versets sataniques		46.079
5	Finnish (fi) Saatanalliset säkeet		45.8332
6	Polish (pl) Szatańskie wersety (powieść)		43.5312
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) The Satanic Verses		36.501
8	Hebrew (he) פסוקי השטן		36.3568
9	Vietnamese (vi) The Satanic Verses		36.008
10	Greek (el) Σατανικοί Στίχοι		35.083

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Satanic Verses		13 136 418
2	Persian (fa) آیات شیطانی		2 186 783
3	Japanese (ja) 悪魔の詩		1 637 810
4	French (fr) Les Versets sataniques		1 513 108
5	German (de) Die satanischen Verse		1 110 155
6	Spanish (es) Los versos satánicos		817 921
7	Arabic (ar) آيات شيطانية		771 276
8	Russian (ru) Сатанинские стихи		724 328
9	Turkish (tr) Şeytan Ayetleri (roman)		522 287
10	Italian (it) I versi satanici		462 325

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) The Satanic Verses		30 514
2	Persian (fa) آیات شیطانی		4 795
3	Japanese (ja) 悪魔の詩		3 623
4	French (fr) Les Versets sataniques		3 084
5	German (de) Die satanischen Verse		2 443
6	Russian (ru) Сатанинские стихи		1 788
7	Spanish (es) Los versos satánicos		1 446
8	Italian (it) I versi satanici		1 358
9	Portuguese (pt) The Satanic Verses		1 118
10	Turkish (tr) Şeytan Ayetleri (roman)		1 038

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Satanic Verses		527
2	French (fr) Les Versets sataniques		168
3	German (de) Die satanischen Verse		165
4	Persian (fa) آیات شیطانی		156
5	Russian (ru) Сатанинские стихи		90
6	Turkish (tr) Şeytan Ayetleri (roman)		83
7	Hebrew (he) פסוקי השטן		66
8	Arabic (ar) آيات شيطانية		65
9	Dutch (nl) De duivelsverzen		64
10	Japanese (ja) 悪魔の詩		60

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	Arabic (ar) آيات شيطانية		3
2	English (en) The Satanic Verses		2
3	Catalan (ca) Els Versos Satànics		1
4	Danish (da) De sataniske vers		1
5	Esperanto (eo) La satanaj versoj		1
6	Basque (eu) The Satanic Verses		1
7	Persian (fa) آیات شیطانی		1
8	Finnish (fi) Saatanalliset säkeet		1
9	French (fr) Les Versets sataniques		1
10	Hebrew (he) פסוקי השטן		1

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

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