01439nam a22002057a 450000500170000000800410001704000070005804100080006508200220007310000160009524500440011126000330015530000260018852009210021465000220113565000240115765000230118165000110120470000180121520211215155124.0211215b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  cAL  aeng  223a297.095bNAIA  aV S Naipaul  aAmong the Believers: An Islamic Journey  aEnglandbPenguin Booksc1982  a399 p.bPBc20x12 cm.  aAmong the Believers is V. S. Naipaul’s classic account of his journeys through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia; ‘the believers’ are the Muslims he met on those journeys, young men and women battling to regain the original purity of their faith in the hope of restoring order to a chaotic world. It is a uniquely valuable insight into modern Islam and the comforting simplifications of religious fanaticism.
‘This book investigates the Islamic revolution and tries to understand the fundamentalist zeal that has gripped the young in Iran and other Muslim countries . . . He is a modern master.’ - Sunday Times
‘His level of perception is of the highest, and his prose has become the perfect instrument for realizing those perceptions on the page. His travel writing is perhaps the most important body of work of its kind in the second half of the century.’ - Martin Amis, author of Time's Arrow.  aIslamic Countries  aManners and Customs  aReligion and State  aTravel  aNAIPAUL (V S)