Rushdie Offers His 'Antidote' to Religious Bigotrybr Book Passage - Book Passagebr Salman Rushdie talks about his new novel The Enchantress of Florence.A young traveler, calling himself the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the Emperor Akbar, lord of the great Mughal empire, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the imperial capital — a tale about a mysterious, beautiful woman in the far-off city of Florence.