Among the Believers: An Islamic JourneyKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 12.07.1982 - 448 Seiten The Nobel Prize-winning author gives us – on the basis of his own intensive seventeen month journey across the Asian continent – an unprecedented revelation of the Islamic world. • “A brilliant report…. A book of scathing inquiry and judgment, whose tragic power is being continually reinforced by current events” (Newsweek). With all the narrative power and intellectual authority that have distinguished his earlier books and won him international acclaim (“There can hardly be a writer alive who surpasses him” – Irving Howe, The New York Times Book Review), Naipaul explores the life, the culture, the ferment inside the nations of Islam – in a book that combines the fascinations of the great works of travel literature with the insights of a uniquely sharp, original, and idiosyncratic political mind. He takes us into four countries in the throes of “Islamization” – countries that, in their ardor to build new societies based entirely on the fundamental laws of Islam, have violently rejected the “materialism” of the technologically advanced nations that have long supported them. He brings us close to the people of Islam – how they live and work, the role of faith in their lives, how they see their place in the modern world. |
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... Malay ; and Malays were to be given loans to buy the shares reserved for them . This was how the government discriminated in their favour , seeking to bring them up economically to the level of the Chinese . The method was ineffectual ...
... Malay ; and Malays were to be given loans to buy the shares reserved for them . This was how the government discriminated in their favour , seeking to bring them up economically to the level of the Chinese . The method was ineffectual ...
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... Malay restaurants — we had them in Kota Bharu . We couldn't find . It was difficult for us to eat ; for us we have to take Muslim food . " When we left we could see a village scene . Towards the evening we see rubber estates and jungles ...
... Malay restaurants — we had them in Kota Bharu . We couldn't find . It was difficult for us to eat ; for us we have to take Muslim food . " When we left we could see a village scene . Towards the evening we see rubber estates and jungles ...
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... Malay ; considering the traffic jams and the ex- haust fumes that quivered in the heat ; considering Shafi in his car , now driving with the rest ( the boy whose village school , in the far northeast , had an earthen floor that became ...
... Malay ; considering the traffic jams and the ex- haust fumes that quivered in the heat ; considering Shafi in his car , now driving with the rest ( the boy whose village school , in the far northeast , had an earthen floor that became ...
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THE SALT HILLS OF A DREAM | 83 |
Assaults | 297 |
Reconstructing the Past | 305 |
Urheberrecht | |
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