{"product_id":"9780330517874-beyond-belief","title":"Beyond Belief","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIslamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating follow-up to \u003ci\u003eAmong the Believers \u003c\/i\u003eby one of our most brilliant writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeyond Belief\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time. But it is not a book of opinion. It is, in the Naipaul way, a very rich and human book, full of people and their stories: stories of family, both broken and whole; of religion and nation; and of the constant struggle to create a world of virtue and prosperity in equal measure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Islam is an Arab religion, and it makes imperial Arabizing demands on its converts. In this way it is more than a private faith; and it can become a neurosis. What has this Arab Islam done to the histories of the non-Arab Islamic states: Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, and Malaysia? How do the converted peoples view their past – and their future? In a follow-up to \u003ci\u003eAmong the Believers\u003c\/i\u003e, his classic account of his travels through these countries, V. S. Naipaul returns, after a gap of seventeen years, to find out how and what the converted preach.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Peerless . the human encounters are described minutely, superbly, picking up inconsistencies in people’s tales, catching the uncertainties and the nuances . there is a candour to his writing, a constant precision at its heart’ – \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56451376185718,"sku":"9780330517874","price":10.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29693321.jpg?v=1760462180","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780330517874-beyond-belief","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}