The Taliban
Subtitle: War and Religion in Afghanistan, Revised Edition (Politics in Contemporary Asia)
Edition: Revised Edition edition
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: February 8, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781842771662
Subjects: Islam; Islamic studies; Political ideologies; Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle; Taliban; Islam and politics; Current Affairs; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; Afghanistan; Islamic fundamentalism; Asia - General; Religion / Fundamentalism; Fundamentalism; Political; 1973-; Politics and government
First sentence: This book is about relationships: between the West and the Islamic world, between the various movements in the Islamic world and within Afghanistan, and between the people of Afghanistan as they respond to the experiences that have overwhelmed them since the 1978 coup and the subsequent Soviet invasion.