Ebook: Beyond belief: Islamic excursions among the converted peoples
Author: Naipaul Vidiadhar Surajprasad
- Tags: Islam, RELIGION--Islam--General, Islam--Asia, Travel, Electronic books, Controversial literature, Biography, Naipaul V. S. -- (Vidiadhar Surajprasad) -- 1932-2018 -- Travel -- Islamic countries, Islam -- Asia, Islam -- Controversial literature, Islamic countries -- Description and travel, RELIGION -- Islam -- General, Naipaul V. S. -- (Vidiadhar Surajprasad) -- 1932-2018, Asia, Islamic countries
- Year: 1998
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- City: New York;Islamic countries;Asia
- Edition: 1st Vintage International ed
- Language: English
- epub
Indonesia: flight of the N-250 -- Iran: justice of Ali -- Pakistan: dropping off the map -- Malaysian postscript: raising the coconut shell.;"Brilliant. ... A powerfully observed, stylistically elegant exploration."--The New York Times A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "The book's strength lies in Naipaul's extraordinary ability as a storyteller to draw striking portraits of a cross section of individuals."--The Boston Globe 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 triumph in Iran. Beyond Belief is the 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. In extended conversations with a vast number of people--a rare survivor of the martyr brigades of the Iran-Iraq war, a young intellectual training as a Marxist guerilla in Baluchistan, an impoverished elderly couple in Teheran whose dusty Baccarat chandeliers preserve the memory of vanished wealth, and countless others--V.S. Naipaul deliberately effaces himself to let the voices of his subjects come through. Yet the result is a collection of stories that has the author's unmistakable stamp. With its incisive observation and brilliant cultural analysis, Beyond Belief is a startling and revelatory addition to the Naipaul canon. "Highly accomplished. ... Another display of Naipaul's remarkable talent."--The Independent (London).
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