01538nam a22002297a 4500 20211215155124.0 211215b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d AL eng 23 297.095 NAIA V S Naipaul 11684 Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey England Penguin Books 1982 399 p. PB 20x12 cm. Among 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. Islamic Countries 11685 Manners and Customs 11686 Religion and State 11687 Travel 11688 NAIPAUL (V S) 11689 ddc GF 220952 220952 0 0 ddc 0 0 OTH AL AL 2013-03-24 0 297.095 NAIA GF01079 2021-12-15 00:00:00 2021-12-15 GF