by Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul · 10/18 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782264029140
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Fifteen years after his first journey through four non-Arab Muslim countries—Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, and Malaysia—V.S. Naipaul retraces his steps. The author of 'Among the Believers' seeks out the people he met in 1979, both those resisting in the shadows and those who were enthusiastic supporters of the massive upheavals then affecting the Muslim world. Naipaul reports on these singular lives, converted to the religion of the Prophet over two decades. From Islamabad to Kuala Lumpur, and from the Iranian countryside to the megacities of Indonesia, he collects the disenchanted words of men resigned to enduring the aberrations of the regimes in place. The writer, who also acts as a sociologist or historian, paints a portrait of this part of humanity that has yielded to the dictates of an obscurantist conception of faith.
