Beyond belief : Islamic excursions among the converted peoples / V.S. Naipaul
By: Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad)
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Publisher: N.Y. : Random House, c1998Description: xiii, 408 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0375706488.Subject(s): Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932- -- Journeys -- Islamic countries | Islam -- Controversial literature | Islam -- Asia | Islamic countries -- Description and travelDDC classification: 297.095 Summary: Fourteen years after the publication of his landmark travel narrative Among the Believers, V.S. Naipaul returned to the four non-Arab Islamic countries he reported on so vividly at the time of Ayatollah Khomeini's trumph in Iran. Beyond Belief is a result of his five month journey in 1995 through Indonesia ,Iran, Pakistan, and Malaysia - lands where descendants of Muslim converts live at odds with indigenous traditions, and where dreams of Islamic purity clash with economic and political realities. Back cover.
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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Fourteen years after the publication of his landmark travel narrative Among the Believers, V.S. Naipaul returned to the four non-Arab Islamic countries he reported on so vividly at the time of Ayatollah Khomeini's trumph in Iran. Beyond Belief is a result of his five month journey in 1995 through Indonesia ,Iran, Pakistan, and Malaysia - lands where descendants of Muslim converts live at odds with indigenous traditions, and where dreams of Islamic purity clash with economic and political realities. Back cover.