Among the Believers

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."

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at Oxford he began to write, and since then he has followed no other profession. He is the author of more than twenty books of fiction and nonfiction and the recipient of numerous honors, including the Nobel Prize in 2001, the Booker Prize in 1971, and a knighthood for services to literature in 1990. He lives in Wiltshire, England.

I IRAN: THE TWIN REVOLUTIONS

Death Pact

3

(13)

The Rule of Ali

16

(20)

The Holy City

36

(22)

The Night Train from Mashbad

58

(27)

II PAKISTAN: THE SALT HILLS OF A DREAM

Displacements

85

(17)

Karachi Phantasmagoria

102

(22)

The Little Arab

124

(7)

Killing History

131

(12)

Hyderabad Boogie-Woogie

143

(13)

The Disorder of the Law

156

(13)

Basics

169

(9)

In the Kaghan Valley

178

(25)

Agha Babur

203

(7)

The Salt Hills of a Dream

210

(15)

III CONVERSATIONS IN MALAYSIA: THE PRIMITIVE FAITH

First Conversations with Shafi: The Journey Out of Paradise

225

(18)

Brave Girls

243

(11)

Between Malacca and the Genting Highlands

254

(12)

Araby

266

(12)

The Spilt Playground

278

(19)

IV INDONESIA: USURPATIONS

Assaults

297

(8)

Sitor: Reconstructing the Past

305

(12)

Deschooling

317

(26)

The Rice Goddess

343

(13)

The Loss of Personality

356

(5)

Mental Training in Bandung

361

(18)

The Interchangeable Revolutions

379

(12)

REPRISE: THE SOCIETY OF BELIEVERS

Submission

391

(10)

Islamic Winter

401

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