Complex sentence: In recent times Salman Rushdie, in his book "The Satanic verses", chose the name Mahound to refer to Muhammad, however, he is not identified as Satan in that work.
Split into simpler sentences: In recent times Salman Rushdie, in his book "The Satanic verses", chose the name Mahound to refer to Muhammad. In Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, Muhammad is refered to as Mahound, however, he is not identified as Satan in that work.