Beyond Belief - Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples

Beyond Belief 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. ''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

Product details

• Authors: V S Naipaul, V. S. Naipaul, V.S. Naipaul, V. S. Naipaul
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.09.2010
• EAN: 9780330517874
• ISBN: 978-0-330-51787-4
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > Asia; Islam, RELIGION / Islam / General, RELIGION / Fundamentalism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Religious, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Literary, Middle East, Religious Fundamentalism, Islamic countries, Islamic Caliphate, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups