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  <title><![CDATA[Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey]]></title>
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  <default_description>Naipaul's controversial account of his travels through the Islamic world was hailed by The New Republic as &quot;the most notable work on contemporary Islam to have appeared in a very long time.&quot;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1981</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[V.S. Naipaul]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 1995</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of Naipaul's best and most prescient books. Naipaul travels through islamic Asia - Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia in 1980, just after the Iranian islamic revolution. The book contains his observations on Islam after meeting a lot of people in all these countries. The book is sympathetic ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1406270">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 30 08:54:46 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jul 11 00:21:24 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I hardly read Naipaul for what the books contain anymore. I know I will disagree -- occassionally quite strongly -- I know there will be moments that will appall me -- when he's needlessly aggressive or mean or, for that matter, judgmental about people he's just met ('I should be ready at 7:30. He c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44852448">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jan 04 16:38:36 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Soon after the Iranian Revolution, Naipaul begins his Islamic Journey. His account consists of several interviews of religious and political figures throughout the Muslim world. He finds that Islam while being a worthy and &quot;useful&quot; religion, is handicapped as a form of Government. He concl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41889682">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47390115">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1985</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Feb 24 11:43:15 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book when I was living in the Middle East and it was a refreshing depiction from an outsider of my world at the time, where I had thought everything was okay. I was grateful for the new perspective he gave me, leading me to realize that I could never make the Middle East my permanenet re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47390115">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70804523">
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  <date_added>Thu Sep 10 21:19:39 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 10 21:19:39 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is brutal.  Naipaul is a fantastic novelist, but he's a bit of a crank as an essayist and travel writer.  The full range of his controversial misanthropy is on display in this collection, where Naipaul reduces all complex social phenomena to the toxic admixture of Islam and local cultures....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70804523">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67850346">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Aug 18 00:19:25 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[For many, it could be the blasphemy oriented book . However, its beauty lies in accepting the shotcomings of Islam and making sincere effots to eradicate those things to make the religion even more beautiful instead of getting annoyed and labelling VS Naipaul as a cultural voyeur.   ]]></body>
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    <review id="867026">
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    <name><![CDATA[Nathan]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Detroit, MI]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Tue Apr 24 16:18:02 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri May 25 14:03:24 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nearly a 5 star book.  Reading Naipaul's deadpan account of a long-haul journey through Asian muslim communities in the early 1980s, one pictures a tweed-clad cross between Werner Herzog and Dr. Spock, roaming around with a worn notepad.  Naipaul is prone to guessing -- sometimes presumptuously -- a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/867026">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59161446">
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very well written, like his other books, and interesting, informative analysis of interplay between Islam and preexisting religions, as well as the effot to combine religion with government.]]></body>
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    <review id="32631901">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Naipaul writes a great book. this was the first one i read and it is a sort of travel log of his trip through muslim asia. I decided to read this and &quot;beyond belief&quot; after 9-11-01 to better understand the region.  Although Naipaul comes off as a scathing critic, it is still a truly enlight...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32631901">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72586458">
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    <name><![CDATA[Eric]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[cultural theory]]></body>
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    <review id="26551279">
    <user id="5792">
    <name><![CDATA[patrick]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the follow up to this book, &quot;Beyond Belief,&quot; several years ago and remember it flowing a bit more smoothly than this volume.  Perhaps it was the fact that so much has changed around the Muslim world since this was published in 1982, but I struggled to get through this book.  Still, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26551279">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39536810">
    <user id="1783022">
    <name><![CDATA[Richard]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Feb 06 12:42:48 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book because it did exactly what a good travel narrative should: It informed not just about the historical and cultural history of these various Islamic countries, but it also examined their current situations, comparing and contrasting the issues each of these countries faces (or doesn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39536810">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1162428">
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    <name><![CDATA[Steven]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Somebody with a Taste for Current Events]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[You might think growing up in the Trinidad/Tobago area would have trumped whatever snobbery Oxford could inflict on somebody, but you'd be wrong.<br/><br/>While the travel log is an amazing, in-person account of how Islam flourished in Iran, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Malaysia, Naipul's voice freque...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1162428">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29874475">
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    <body><![CDATA[Helped me understand Islam, when I read it in 1982, before most Americans were thinking of Islam as a force that could affect America and should be dealt with  sensitively as one of the world's great religions, but with a dark side (as with all religion).  And Naipaul is a fine writer.]]></body>
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    <review id="76183384">
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  <read_at>Thu Dec 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very penetrating about islamic society]]></body>
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    <review id="42051676">
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    <body><![CDATA[Naipaul tours several countries in this book.  I think I made it through Iran, but still need to finish. An interesting look at the Islamic world pre-9/11.]]></body>
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    <review id="10968163">
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you're wondering about Islam and how it lives in Pakistan, Iraq, Malaysia and/or Indonesia, you should read this book.  And it won the Nobel, if you're into that kind of prestige...  ]]></body>
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    <review id="10469366">
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    <name><![CDATA[Seth]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Among the more penetrating looks at Islamic society that I've encountered.  Naipaul is never afraid to be critical -- you have to hand it to him.]]></body>
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    <review id="7311832">
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    <body><![CDATA[Still very relevant though written in the 1980's, particularly interesting about Iran.]]></body>
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