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Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples
by Naipaul, V. S
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- as new
- Hardcover
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0316643610
- ISBN 13
- 9780316643610
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About This Item
London: Little, Brown & Company, 1998 Book. As New. Hardcover. Revised Edition. Large Octavo. Large 8vo. (8) 439 (1) pp. Reprinted, 1998. Not Price Clipped. Pristine. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6.25" x 9.5". Maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial dj in acetate protector. "Revisiting Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan and Malaysia - the countries he visited for "Among the Believers" (1981), Naipaul reviews his impressions of the Islamic world. He explores the life and culture, and the current ferment which exists inside the nations of Islam.".
Synopsis
V. S. NAIPAUL was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then he has followed no other profession. He has published more than twenty books of fiction and non-fiction, including A House for Mr. Biswas , A Bend in the River and A Turn in the South , and a collection of letters, Between Father and Son . He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006552
- Title
- Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples
- Author
- Naipaul, V. S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- Revised Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0316643610
- ISBN 13
- 9780316643610
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- HISTORY INDONESIA HISTORY AND RELIGION ISLAM CULTURE AND CONVERSION RELIGIOUS TYRANNY
- Bookseller catalogs
- HISTORY;
- Size
- Large Octavo
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West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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