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Book SynopsisThe Nobel Prize-winning author offers an insightful follow-up to his landmark travelogue Among the Believers: a brilliant … powerfully observed, stylistically elegant exploration (The New York Times) that’s the result of a five-month journey through Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, and Malaysia, countries where dreams of Islamic purity clash with economic and political realities.
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 lands where descendants of Muslim converts live at odds with indigenous traditions.
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 guer
