Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples
by V.S. Naipaul
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New Delhi, India: Viking Penguin India, 1998. First Indian edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. 8vo, 439 pages, brown cloth; small, green sticker on rear panel. Surprisingly Scarce in this edition, which was
Dust jacket price is 500 rupees. DJ blurbs by V. S. Pritchett, Elizabeth Hardwick, Michael Ratcliffe. "Printed by PUSP Print Services" on last page. A companion volume to his AMONG THE BELIEVERS: this is his observations on his travels in Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, and Malaysia. "Beyond Belief is interesting and often perceptive, and offers real insights into the lives and experiences of these people. As narrative, it is an impressive achievement--but it is not only narrative. Despite Naipaul's surprising disclaimer that this is not "a book of opinion" or of "conclusions," it is very much both. Opinion and conclusion are reflected in the selection of stories and in their structure and tone; they are also evident in the editorial commentary scattered throughout. Naipaul repeatedly characterizes Islam as a fanatic, missionary religion dedicated to erasing the histories and native cultures of convert peoples. Although all missionary religions are to some extent guilty of this, Islam, in his view, is more single-minded and systematic in its effacement of the past - Choice Review".
Dust jacket price is 500 rupees. DJ blurbs by V. S. Pritchett, Elizabeth Hardwick, Michael Ratcliffe. "Printed by PUSP Print Services" on last page. A companion volume to his AMONG THE BELIEVERS: this is his observations on his travels in Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, and Malaysia. "Beyond Belief is interesting and often perceptive, and offers real insights into the lives and experiences of these people. As narrative, it is an impressive achievement--but it is not only narrative. Despite Naipaul's surprising disclaimer that this is not "a book of opinion" or of "conclusions," it is very much both. Opinion and conclusion are reflected in the selection of stories and in their structure and tone; they are also evident in the editorial commentary scattered throughout. Naipaul repeatedly characterizes Islam as a fanatic, missionary religion dedicated to erasing the histories and native cultures of convert peoples. Although all missionary religions are to some extent guilty of this, Islam, in his view, is more single-minded and systematic in its effacement of the past - Choice Review".
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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- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4586
- Title
- Beyond Belief
- Author
- V.S. Naipaul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- as new
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Indian edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670883344
- ISBN 13
- 9780670883349
- Publisher
- Viking Penguin India
- Place of Publication
- New Delhi, India
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Nobel Prize for Literature, travel, India, Pakistan, Islamic nations, muslim nations, Malaysia,
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