Among the Believers

'This compelling book is not just a series of brilliant human sketches. For these alone it is worth anybody's time. But it is also ... a refrain about the nature and impact of Islamic faith ... I know no travel book which raises these issues so powerfully and none, naturally, which is better written' - Robin Lane Fox in the Financial Times'Bewilderment, tenderness, affection and dismay inform his reactions both to those who became his friends on the Islamic journey and those who did not ... Naipaul is a superlative traveller who misses nothing worth the record' - Michael Ratcliffe in The Times'Mr Naipaul has written a book more poignant and more important than any sociological treatise' - Colin Thubron in the Sunday Telegraph'Among the Believers is one of Mr Naipaul's best books, making you laugh aloud while feeling at the same time intensely disturbed' - Anthony Powell in the Daily Telegraph