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Beyond Belief

- Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples
Af: V.S. Naipaul Engelsk Paperback

Beyond Belief

- Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples
Af: V.S. Naipaul Engelsk Paperback
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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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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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 448
ISBN-13: 9780330517874
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0330517872
Kategori: Islamic Caliphate
Udg. Dato: 3 sep 2010
Længde: 31mm
Bredde: 133mm
Højde: 196mm
Forlag: Pan Macmillan
Oplagsdato: 3 sep 2010
Forfatter(e): V.S. Naipaul
Forfatter(e) V.S. Naipaul

Kategori Islamic Caliphate

ISBN-13 9780330517874

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 448

Udgave

Længde 31mm

Bredde 133mm

Højde 196mm

Udg. Dato 3 sep 2010

Oplagsdato 3 sep 2010

Forlag Pan Macmillan