Among the Believers Author:V. S. Naipaul Among the Believers is V. S. Naipaul's account of his journeys through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia; 'the believers' are the Muslims he met on those journeys, young men and women battling to regain the original purity of their faith in the hope of restoring order to a chaotic world. It is a uniquely valuable insigh... more »t into modern Islam, and the comforting simplifications of religious fanaticism.
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."« less