Taliban : militant Islam, oil, and fundamentalism in Central Asia / Ahmed Rashid.
By: Rashid, Ahmed
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BookPublisher: New Haven : Yale Nota Bene, 2001Description: xi, 279 p. : maps ; 20 cm.ISBN: 0300089023 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Taliban | Islamic fundamentalism -- Afghanistan | Islam and state -- Afghanistan | Islam and politics -- Afghanistan | Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 1973-1989 | Afghanistan -- HistoryDDC classification: 958.104 | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Afghanistan's Holy Warriors -- Ch. 1. Kandahar 1994: The Origins of the Taliban -- Ch. 2. Herat 1995: God's Invincible Soldiers -- Ch. 3. Kabul 1996: Commander of the Faithful -- Ch. 4. Mazar-e-Sharif 1997: Massacre in the North -- Ch. 5. Bamiyan 1998-99: The Never-Ending War -- Ch. 6. Challenging Islam: The New-Style Fundamentalism of the Taliban -- Ch. 7. Secret Society: The Taliban's Political and Military Organization -- Ch. 8. A Vanished Gender: Women, Children and Taliban Culture -- Ch. 9. High on Heroin: Drugs and the Taliban Economy -- Ch. 10. Global Jihad: The Arab-Afghans and Osama Bin Laden -- Ch. 11. Dictators and Oil Barons: The Taliban and Central Asia, Russia, Turkey and Israel -- Ch. 12. Romancing the Taliban 1: The Battle for Pipelines 1994-96 -- Ch. 13. Romancing the Taliban 2: The Battle for Pipelines 1997-99 - The USA and the Taliban -- Ch. 14. Master or Victim: Pakistan's Afghan War -- Ch. 15. Shia and Sunni: Iran and Saudi Arabia -- Ch. 16. Conclusion: The Future of Afghanistan.
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