Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted People

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ISBN: 0375706488
Author: V.S. Naipaul
Publisher: Vintage
Pages: 0 Binding: Paperback

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Noble Prize winning author from the Caribbean, V.S. Naipul's travel narrative Beyond Belief is an important book as a Westerner's attempt to come to grasp with Islam's continuing spread and popularity across the non-Arab world. VS Naipul, of Indian-Hindu origins, attempts to approach the subject from a neutral stance, meeting numerous people in his travels across Indonesia, Pakistan, Iran and Malaysia. He analyzes their beliefs and practices and the reasons for their adherence to Islam especially in the face of great adversity Muslims face in these so-called "Islamic countries." Fascinating as this may sound, as has been demonstrated countless times however, there is no such thing as a "neutral" observer, one's own background and personal prejudices always become entangled in a study of this kind. While the reader is left to draw his own conclusions on what to make of this travelogue/study, there is no doubt about the fact that there are very few works of such nature available in English on Islam in Muslim Countries. Widely read across the English-speaking world, VS Naipul's foray into the Islamic World, is an important reading of how Westerner's perceive Islam today.

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