In the immediate aftermath of the Iranian Revolution, the late VS Naipaul (who died on 11 August 2018) and this author separately criss-crossed Indonesia, the world's largest Islamic nation, in a search for answers to the same question: what next for Indonesian Islam?
Tehran, Iran, 1980. It was a traumatic year for America's power, self-image, and its relationship with Islam. Much of the entire staff component of the American Embassy in the Iranian capital was being held hostage, subject to who knew what humiliations - or worse.
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