ISBN10: 8176256935, ISBN13: 9788176256933, [publisher: Sarup & Sons] Hardcover pp. [vii] + 229 Index 1st Edition
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]

ISBN10: 8176256935, ISBN13: 9788176256933, [publisher: Sarup, New Delhi] Hardcover Contents Preface. 1. Nearer home (of Islam). 2. Further down. 3. To the other end. 4. Mixed myth area. 5. The believers beyond belief. 6. Iran revisited. 7. Pakistan around 1996. 8. Malayan Detour. 9. Islam anywhere. 10. Islam a test. 11. Naipaul's Nuance. Selected bibliography. Index. The work deals with Naipaul's most controversial subject his studies of the Muslim world but curiously in an uncontroversial neutral academic spirit that reveals exactly what impartial dispassionate judgement can. Reveals the author Naipaul is his human responses as a man as well as the world he studies. The treatment in the work is entertaining at the same time enlightening. 230 pp.
[New Delhi, India] [Publication Year: 2006]