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"How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read."
- Karl Kraus
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ZIN Product Number: 10086171
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 432 pages
Edition: 1 VINTAGE
Publisher: Knopf Alfred A
ISBN: 0375706488
Release Date: Jan 5, 1984
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 2 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
V.S. Naipaul has felt that his acceptance of his religion is a rejection of the culture he lives in. And, similarly, his distance from the Arab world -- for he believes Islam is fundamentally an Arabic religion -- is also a distance from his faith. In the early 1980s, Naipaul published Among the Beleivers, a collection of reflections on his travels in Indonesia, Pakistan, Iran, and Malaysia. At that time, the fundamentalist revolution in Iran was at its peak, Pakistan was a struggling and repressive South Asian nation, and Indonesia and Malaysia were trying to adapt to the demands of Western capitalism. Now, 15 years later, with Iran ever-so-slowly liberalizing, Pakistan making moves to be a world power, and Indonesia and Malaysia at the heart of both the Asian miracle and the Asian crisis, Naipaul returns to these countries in Beyond Belief. With one or more of these countries making the front pages of newspapers around the world almost every day, understanding the philosophical and practical expressions of religion is crucial to both understanding the nations and interpreting the news.
| | | | From The Publisher
"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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A Masterpiece
-- A reviewer, January 30, 2002
A Masterpiece
-- A reviewer, January 30, 2002
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
In this follow-up to Naipaul's Among the Believers, the author revisits the countries and peoples--non-Arab Muslims--of that earlier book
| |  | | | | Prologue | xi | | PART I Indonesia The Flight of the N-250 | | 1. The Man of the Moment | 3 | | 2. History | 21 | | 3. A Convert | 35 | | 4. A Sacred Place | 49 | | 5. Kampung | 65 | | 6. Below the Lava | 75 | | 7. Oh Mama! Oh Papa! | 95 | | 8. Ghosts | 108 | | PART II Iran The justice of Ali | | 1. The Foundation of the Oppressed | 133 | | 2. Mr. Jaffrey's Round Trip | 143 | | 3. The Great War | 156 | | 4. Salt Land | 165 | | 5. The jail | 179 | | 6. The Martyr | 189 | | 7. Qom: The Punisher | 200 | | 8. Cancer | 221 | | 9. The Two Tribes | 233 | | PART III Pakistan Dropping off the Map | | 1.A Criminal Enterprise | 245 | | 2. The Polity | 253 | | 3. Rana in His Village | 266 | | 4. Guerrilla | 275 | | 5. Penitent | 290 | | 6. Loss | 303 | | 7. From the North | 313 | | 8. Ali's Footprint | 327 | | 9. War | 340 | | PART IV Malaysian Postscript Raising the Coconut Shell | | 1. Old Clothes | 361 | | 2. New Model | 372 | | 3. The Bomoh's Son | 381 | | 4. The Other World | 393 |
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Religion, Religion - World Religions, Islam - General, Asia, General
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