Syed Shahabuddin previously worked as an Indian Foreign Service officer and also led the All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat - the country`s top-level forum for Muslim organisations.
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Syed Shahabuddin is buried in New Delhi following a prolonged illnessIndian politician Syed Shahabuddin, an influential political figure for minority Indian Muslims, has died aged 82.
He served as an MP for three terms between 1979 and 1996, and also successfully campaigned to ban Salman Rushdie`s novel The Satanic Verses.
Following the controversy over Rushdie`s novel, Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwa ordering Muslims to kill the author.
That story is inspired by an apocryphal incident in the life of the Prophet Muhammad, called the Satanic Verses.
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