Islam Related Naipaul

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." (jacket)