Rushdie acknowledged his debt in earlier works, including The Moor's Last Sigh (1996), and homage is
also found in Naguib Mahfouz's Arabian Nights and Days (1995), Vikram Chandra's Red Earth and Pouring Rain (1995), Martin Amis» The Pregnant Widow (2010), Rabih Alameddine's The Hakawati (2008), Nelida
Pinon's Voices of the Desert (2009), and John Barth's Chimera (1972) and The Book of Ten Nights and a Night (2004), which takes place directly after September 11, 2001.