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Taliban : the power of militant Islam in Afghanistan and beyond / Ahmed Rashid.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rashid, Ahmed, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects--Asia, Central.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- Islam and politics--Afghanistan.
- Islam and politics.
- Islamic fundamentalism--Afghanistan.
- Islamic fundamentalism.
- Taliban.
- Afghanistan--Politics and government--20th century.
- Afghanistan.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 323 pages : maps ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London, UK ; New York, NY : I.B. Tauris, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2022.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 History of the Taliban Movement
- 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
- pt. 2 Islam and the Taliban
- 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
- pt. 3 The New Great Game
- 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 Versus Sunni: Iran and Saudi Arabia
- ch. 16 Conclusion: The Future of Afganistan
- ch. 17 The Taliban Resurgent 2000
- 2009.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780755647101
- 0755647106
- 9780755647095
- 0755647092
- OCLC:
- 1299143368
- Publisher Number:
- 99991057873
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