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Beyond Belief is a book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time: the effects of the Islamic conversion of Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, and Malaysia. It is not a book of opinion. It is - in the Naipaul way - a very rich and human book, full of people and stories.Islam is an Arab religion, and it makes imperial Arabizing demands on its converts.
In a follow-up to Among the Believers, Naipaul returns after seventeen years to Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, and Malaysia to determine the effects on these countries brought by conversion to Islam Part I: Indonesia the flight of the N-250 -- Part II: Iran the justice of Ali -- Part III Pakistan dropping off the map -- Part IV: Malaysian postscript raising the coconut shell
Other articles where Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples is discussed: V.S. Naipaul: In 1998 he published Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples, a portrayal of the Islamic faith in the lives of ordinary people in Iran, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Half a Life (2001) is a novel about an Indian immigrant to England and then Africa.
"For sheer abundance of talent, there can hardly be a writer alive who surpasses V. S. Naipaul. [He is] the world's writer, a master of language and perception."--The New York Times Book Review"A superlative traveler who misses nothing worth the record."--The Times (London)Beyond Belief is a book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time: the effects of the Islamic ...
Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. By V. S. Naipaul. 408 pp. ... ''Beyond Belief,'' V. S. Naipaul's journey through the Islamic lands of ... is an incomparable guide to the complex of animist and Islamic belief with which Indonesians confront the collapse of their economic miracle and the breakdown of the Suharto regime ...
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 ...
22 de mar. de 2012 · Beyond Belief. : 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 ...
