Showing Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples by V. S. Naipaul

Paperback. Pub Date :2010-11-1 Pages: 435 Publisher: Macmillan This is a book about one of the more important and unsettlingissues of our time But it is not a book of opinion It is. in theNaipaul way. a very.. rich and human book. full of people and theirstories:. stories of family. both broken and whole; of religion andnation; and. of the constant struggle to create a world of virtueand prosperity in equal measure Islam is an Arab religion. and itmakes imperial . Arabizing demands on its converts In this way it ismore than a private faith; and. it can become a neurosis What hasthis Arab Islam done to the histories of the non-Arab Islamicstates: Indonesia. Iran. Pakistan. and Malaysia How do theconverted. people view their past - and their future In a follow-upto Among the Believers. his classic account of his travels throughthese countries. VS Naipaul returns. after a gap o...