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Beyond Belief - Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples (Paperback)
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Beyond Belief - Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples (Paperback)
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List price R330
Loot Price R258
Discovery Miles 2 580
You Save R72 (22%)
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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
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