Overview of Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples Book

This is a book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time. But it is not a book of opinion. It is, in the Naipaul way, a very rich and human book, full of people and their stories: stories of family, both broken and whole; of religion and nation; and of the constant struggle to create a world of virtue and prosperity in equal measure. Islam is an Arab religion, and it makes imperial Arabizing demands on its converts. In this way it is more than a private faith; and it can become a neurosis. What has this Arab Islam done to the histories of the non-Arab Islamic states: Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, and Malaysia? How do the converted peoples view their past and their future? In a follow-up to Among the Believers, his classic account of his travels through these countries, V. S. Naipaul returns, after a gap of seventeen years, to find out how and what the converted preach. Sceptical, enquiring, sharply observant and unfailingly stylish Guardian Peerless . . . the human encounters are described minutely, superbly, picking up inconsistencies in people s tales, catching the uncertainties and the nuances . . . there is a candour to his writing, a constant precision at its heart Sunday Times

• Book Type :

Reference

• Book Binding :

Paperback

• Language :

English

• Number of Pages :

• ISBN - 10 :

0330517872

• Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples Published On :

3 Sep 2010

• Resource:

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