The Taliban
Subtitle: War, Religion and the New Order in Afghanistan (Politics in Contemporary Asia)
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: September 15, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781856495219
Subjects: International relations; Islam; Islamic studies; Political ideologies; Warfare & Defence; Middle East - General; Contemporary Politics - Middle East; Islamic Government; Government - Comparative; Current Affairs; Politics / Current Events; History: World; Afghanistan; Political; Asia - General; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; Religion / Fundamentalism; Religion; Islam - Law; Politics and government; Foreign Legal Systems
First sentence: Afghanistan can be characterised geographically as a mountainous desert interspersed with isolated fertile valleys, river basins and oases.