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Taliban : the power of militant Islam in Afghanistan and beyond / Ahmed Rashid.

Taliban : the power of militant Islam in Afghanistan and beyond / Ahmed Rashid.
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ISBN 9781848854468 (pbk.)
1848854463 (pbk.)
Name Rashid, Ahmed
Title Taliban : the power of militant Islam in Afghanistan and beyond / Ahmed Rashid.
Edition New ed.
Published London : I. B. Tauris, 2010
Description xvii, 319 p. : ill. maps ; 20 cm.
Notes Previous ed.: 2002.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Afghanistan's holy warriors -- pt. 1. History of the Taliban movement -- Kandahar 1994: the origins of the Taliban -- Herat 1995: God's invincible soldiers -- Kabul 1996: commander of the faithful -- Mazar-e-Sharif 1997: massacre in the north -- Bamiyan 1998-99: the never-ending war -- pt. 2. Islam and the Taliban -- Challenging Islam: the new-style fundamentalism of the Taliban -- Secret society: the Taliban's political and military organization -- A vanished gender: women, children and Taliban culture -- High on heroin: drugs and the Taliban economy -- Global jihad: The Arab-Afghans and Osama bin Laden -- pt. 3. The new great game -- Dictators and old barons: the Taliban and Central Asia, Russia, Turkey and Israel -- Romancing the TalibanI: the battle for pipelines, 1994-96 -- Romancing the Taliban II: the battle for pipelines 1997-99: the USA and the Taliban -- Master or victim: Pakistan's Afghan war -- Shia versus Sunni: Iran and Saudi Arabia -- Conclusion: the future of Afghanistan -- The Taliban resurgent 2000-2009.
Summary Afghanistan's position as a crossroads in Central Asia made it part of the 19th-century Great Game of imperialism and brings it to international strategic prominence once again. Rashid is a correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review who has covered Afghanistan's changing fortunes since the 1978 Soviet invasion. In his second book, he covers the origin and rise of the Taliban, its concepts of Islam on questions of gender roles and drugs, and the importance of the country to the development of energy resources in the region.
Subjects Taliban
Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects -- Asia, Central
Islam and politics -- Afghanistan
Islamic fundamentalism -- Afghanistan
Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 20th century
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