Among the Believers an Islamic Journey – V. S. Naipaul

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Monitor occasionally reprints material from its archives. This book review originally ran on Oct. 13, 1981.] V. S. Naipaul has made clear elsewhere that he sees various reasons for the dependency of some nations on others.

In Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey he focuses on the role of religion, as he sees it, in affecting the creative and intellectual resources needed by nations to develop on their own.

Roaming far from his native Trinidad and adopted Britain, he uses his novelist skills for reportorial purposes on a recent journey through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia. On the way he repeatedly finds a reason for backwardness in the very devotion to Islam which brings buoyancy or serenity to so many he meets.