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Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 297.095
EAN: 9780394711959
ISBN: 0394711955
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: July 12, 1982
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: July 12, 1982
Studio: Vintage
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Editorial Review:
Naipaul's controversial account of his travels through the Islamic world was hailed by The New Republic as "the most notable work on contemporary Islam to have appeared in a very long time."
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - A great travelogue
This book is remarkable in the relevance of the authors experiences in the early 80s to the present day context. The author visits a cross section of countries in the Islamic world , moving from revolution in Iran to foment in South East Asia. Its a great book to get a fair understanding of Islam in a political context as envisioned by citizens in the countries that he visits. The author starts of with Iran and comes across a cross section of individuals who are hopeful and disillusioned by what ... Read More
Rating:  - A Travelog of Interviews
Naipal begins his journey in Iran, just after the its revolution. Then he visits Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia and returns to Iran just after the taking of the hostages at the US embassy. He meets educators, writers, government workers, students and the unemployed in cities and rural areas. Some he seeks out, others he meets serrindipituously. He asks them about their lives and their hopes for the future.
Two refrains emerge. One is cognitive dissonance regarding the west. It ... Read More
Rating: - Incisive and Brilliant
Notwithstanding hysterical criticisms leveled in negative reviews here, Naipaul does a great job pointing out the basic emptiness of religious fundamentalism. Of course, it focuses on Islam, but blame that on the times: in the early eighties, where was Naipaul supposed to find--say--Catholic fundamentalism?
Naipaul presents his commentary as a travelogue--very creative! By letting his characters speak for themselves, he avoids overt and heavy-handed commentary. But the points he makes ... Read More
Rating:  - Still The Best Portrait of Modern Islam
A masterful view of modern Islam from the bottom up by one of the most perceptive observers of modern culture we have. This book is especially interesting because it was written on the cusp of the emergence of public awareness of the importance of conflicts between Islam and the Judeo-Christian west, and thus the narrative is not encumbered by a need to look at things through a political lens. These are wonderful human portraits, and thus engaging and useful.
Rating: - Better than Naipaul's Fiction
I was reading this book on September 11th, 2001 in preparation for a trip to Cairo, Egypt that I subsequently cancelled. I literally had the book open as the first plane hit the World Trade Center - I know because I was exercising on a stair master in a gym on the Jersey side of the Hudson, with a clear view of the towers.
The attack on the towers was so stunningly awful (in part because I had 2 friends with an office on the 95th floor) that I left after I saw the huge fireball and forgot ... Read More
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