Taliban
Subtitle: militant Islam, oil, and fundamentalism in Central Asia
By: Ahmed Rashid.
Publisher: Yale Nota Bene; Yale University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Taliban; Islamic fundamentalism -- Afghanistan; Islam and state -- Afghanistan; Islam and politics -- Afghanistan; Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 1973-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Kandahar 1994: the origins of the Taliban; title: Herat 1995: God's invincible soldiers; title: Kabul 1996: commander of the faithful; title: Mazar-e-Sharif 1997: massacre in the north; title: Bamiyan 1998-2000: the never-ending war; title: Challenging Islam: the new-style fundamentalism of the Taliban; title: Secret society: the Taliban's political and military organization; title: A vanished gender: women, children and Taliban culture; title: High on heroin: drugs and the Taliban economy; title: Global jihad: the Arab-Afghans and Osama Bin Laden; title: Dictators and oil barons: the Taliban and Central Asia, Russia, Turkey and Israel; title: Romancing the Taliban 1: the battle for pipelines 1994-96; title: Romancing the Taliban 2: the battle for pipelines 1997-99: the USA and the Taliban; title: Master or victim: Pakistan's Afghan war; title: Shia and Sunni: Iran and Saudi Arabia; title: Conclusion: the future of Afghanistan.