Among the Believers

An Islamic Journey

by Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul

ISBN: 0233974164
ISBN-13: 9780233974163
Format: Book

Summary

This account of his travels to four countries of the Islamic world, by a writer who was born in Trinidad and lives in England, is definitely an outsider's view, and aroused immediate controversy upon its publication.

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Bibliographic Details

Publisher: A. Deutsch
Published date: 1981
Pages: 399

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